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some of us would say oh well. it is a crucial moment in his career and an important crucial moment in america's history. the big themes that you see in the speech and the broader story working through the election are kind of i think of four that i will be focusing on. i will be brief on each of them to give enough time for questions. first off, the obvious background of the cold war and a new style of conservative vision of foreign policy that i will explain. directly related to that, there is an enormous divide within the republican party in 1952. that shouldn't surprise any of us obviously. this is always a very divided party the tensions within the republican party that the speech and election point to are important. the third thing that i think is perhaps most important is the american tradition of populism for and what richard nixon is doing to the populist tradition in this speech and for what the election and the fourth and final thing is the style of politics nixon developed. the subtitle of the book is a
some of us would say oh well. it is a crucial moment in his career and an important crucial moment in america's history. the big themes that you see in the speech and the broader story working through the election are kind of i think of four that i will be focusing on. i will be brief on each of them to give enough time for questions. first off, the obvious background of the cold war and a new style of conservative vision of foreign policy that i will explain. directly related to that, there is...
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i hope you can join us. i have fun doing electronics especially because i get to work with my friends. electronics can be fun. rose marie was getting it for her 12 year-old niece. keep the calls coming. the reality is this you should not be intimidated. i think this is the perfect one for my mom. she wants to enter the high-tech world but she is afraid of computers to be honest. this is a computer but it is not as intimidating. it is interactive intuitive, a wonderful way to end toenter the! annual do things probably more often than your computer. --and you will. last show coming up at 9:00 p.m.. also on the 9:00 p.m. our high want to hear from you. promise me you will call. i want to hear--i want to. we will be monitoring live- chat our testimonial line. we would love to hear what you are doing what you want to be doing. do not forget you can shop internet, it is endless. you have access to the amazon appstore. one thing we have not talked about. while it does have a lot of internal memory and everything ha
i hope you can join us. i have fun doing electronics especially because i get to work with my friends. electronics can be fun. rose marie was getting it for her 12 year-old niece. keep the calls coming. the reality is this you should not be intimidated. i think this is the perfect one for my mom. she wants to enter the high-tech world but she is afraid of computers to be honest. this is a computer but it is not as intimidating. it is interactive intuitive, a wonderful way to end toenter the!...
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do they want to just take our business away from us and abandon us? or do they realize that they will fail if we fail? and so the new york publishing industry does have a big question to answer as they go through this merger process, is do you want your independent booksellers, your brick and mortar booksellers -- because i would even include barnes & noble in there too -- do you want them to survive, or do you just want to get bigger? we've always been at the forefront of anything that could help us from the technology world. we got the database together back in the early '80s and were one of the first to go onto a computer system. so once you got -- we wrapped our mind around that project, then we were able to make the store more profitable. but over the years, um, well, most recently is that in order to diversify we started our own digital book-on-demand business called the troy bookmakers where we make books. we literally physically make books. we take the manuscript, we format it into a book, we print the pages, we dip it in glue, we trim it up,
do they want to just take our business away from us and abandon us? or do they realize that they will fail if we fail? and so the new york publishing industry does have a big question to answer as they go through this merger process, is do you want your independent booksellers, your brick and mortar booksellers -- because i would even include barnes & noble in there too -- do you want them to survive, or do you just want to get bigger? we've always been at the forefront of anything that...
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>>host: of the smartest way to shop with us at hsn is to use hsn rd or a just and mastercard. you can simply ask about it when you play to order and when you are proves, he will we will take $20 off when you are approved for wheat offer all sorts of great benefits, the ip finance and no annual fee perry yen0. let you know about the brand new today's special and tonight, colleen lopez has hand- picked a beautiful set earrings dave are going to be the brand new today's special and you will see them tonight at midnight with colleen lopez and to not miss c13 will launch tonight at3 here at hsn individual looking for jewelry , electronics, we here on hsn . [commercial] [commercial] [reading] [♪ music ♪] >>host: shopping with us my name is brett chuckerman and ellen bunner is here and it is that time and everyone is still kind of been better maybe you are just getting6 c13 you do want a soft, cozy blanket experience but it says that so will carry kit and it is there and the title. we call it soft and cozy because it literally is so and it so close the and this is a customer pack
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this term, this year, my life to my being useful. i want to be useful. on my tombstone, he was useful. live the long time. i want to be useful. it i don't want just to say the words, i want to make a difference. >> you already are. i think you on behalf of not only a library of congress and the children's book council and every child, but on behalf of the audience and for our country , the wonderful job your doing. walter dean myers a round of applause. [applause] >> thank you. >> we continue our coverage of the international summit of the book with the panel tell the role of cultural institutions and foster in the future of the book. this is about 50 minutes. >> we are coming to the second session of our day which would be a panel discussion on the role of cultural ostentations and posturing and the future of the book. i will turn to the panel's moderator to introduce the panelists once we are all on stage. sir harold is a distinguished feature in publishing in journalism. i'm sure you've heard of him. president and publisher of random house and the tra
this term, this year, my life to my being useful. i want to be useful. on my tombstone, he was useful. live the long time. i want to be useful. it i don't want just to say the words, i want to make a difference. >> you already are. i think you on behalf of not only a library of congress and the children's book council and every child, but on behalf of the audience and for our country , the wonderful job your doing. walter dean myers a round of applause. [applause] >> thank you....
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they squandered five or six years of their lives that could have been used productively to use money and to acquire skills that would have provided them with a comfortable living. there are certain things going to college makes a lot of sense that the vast majority of college graduates do jobs that high school graduates could do. they drop out of high school, so this is all a myth that everybody has to go to college, that the solution is to spend more money. it's all left the leave come myth. the biggest losers are the kids that squander their youth and adult acquire real skills. they acquire mortgages but no houses and the society, society is poor because we are wasting all these resources. one of the reasons the college graduates graduate into an economy with no jobs is because all of the capitol that would have gone to the businesses to employ them is directed to the universities to educate them and they are not really educated. they are more indoctrinated and they just party and now because money went to universities instead of businesses they graduate and they can't get a job so
they squandered five or six years of their lives that could have been used productively to use money and to acquire skills that would have provided them with a comfortable living. there are certain things going to college makes a lot of sense that the vast majority of college graduates do jobs that high school graduates could do. they drop out of high school, so this is all a myth that everybody has to go to college, that the solution is to spend more money. it's all left the leave come myth....
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at the school of communication and joining us is the dean michael x. delli carpini. dean, what is the school of communication? >> a freestanding school that does research for the public consumption and a scholarly work and a ph.d. training and undergraduate training the way media communications influence social, political, a health and cultural practices. >> host: we're here specifically to talk about your book "after broadcast news" if media regimes, democracy, and the new information environment." but it seems for the last 20 or 30 years we have been debating "after broadcast news" scenario. how do you assess it? >> guest: we try to put it into historical context. the basic argument is over the last 20 years some changes have been slow or quick that are changing the way in where we get public affairs information. the three big changes are the bullring of news and entertainment. think of "the daily show" but more. also the blurring of producers and consumers. just think of the impact from twitter and you to but in the era of spring revolution but also american elect
at the school of communication and joining us is the dean michael x. delli carpini. dean, what is the school of communication? >> a freestanding school that does research for the public consumption and a scholarly work and a ph.d. training and undergraduate training the way media communications influence social, political, a health and cultural practices. >> host: we're here specifically to talk about your book "after broadcast news" if media regimes, democracy, and the...
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i was going to use the quote. i thought it characterized the worse of the corporatism and feeding the elite, the incumbent industry. he didn't say that. he was a courageous guy. he cut the defense budget by 20% in the late 1950. the budget cuts in the late 1950s were the number one reason we had silicon valley. a lot of radio engineers had moved out there there. it was a beautiful part of the country. suddenly they didn't have jobs. they were saying well, you know, we want to stay here. and they created eventually intel and the rest. >> so we were in a very tenuous moment, we had a financial crisis. there was a financial crisis that lead to that crisis industry. and adding on top of that scrolgly the failure of the three automakers. tough, tough call. by the way, i don't know why anybody in this presidential election mentions this was a bush program. [laughter] you know, i mean, i have a chapter about ford. i'm not concerned about partisan politics. we have to get history right. it started in one and continued to
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send us an e-mail at booktv@v span.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. here's a look at books being published this week. >>> now from albany, new york we hear about the state-mandated. it promotes cultural initiative through author presentations, film screenings, workshops and more. >> see each of them just vividly as i could see the posters. i'm donald faulkner. i'm director of the new york state writers institute. what we do, what i do is kind of intellectual. we bring a lot of writers through to albany to do readings. we do a number of other types of programs. events writing workshops and film series and programs with young writers and summer institute we run in czar tow saratoga. adventure but this thing ruined everything. >> go far and wide. find the west writers we can. it's like bringing the world to the particular place, and i don't think -- i can't think of any other organizations even some of the better known ones in major cities that have such a regular flow of creative talent coming through and at no cost to the public with our open-door poli
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i think all of us stand on his shoulders. i think we probably would not have won the american revolutionary war without him, we might not well have gotten a constitution without him, and we might not well have been able to find an orderly system of self-government. and we all stand on his shoulders. and washington was very big on listening to people who actually knew what they were doing. [laughter] and i mean this in a very specific, narrow way. because i'm not against listening to people who know more than you do about their topic. i've listened to consultants who know less than you do but get paid for telling you thing z so you feel secure, because you paid for somebody else, and it fails, it's their fault. so washington, for example u in a fight at trenton -- this is in the second trenton campaign -- needs advice. calls a council of war with. and there are two people in the council who are not part of his military. they're local farmers. and i always remind -- i was at one time the longest-serving teacher in the senior mi
i think all of us stand on his shoulders. i think we probably would not have won the american revolutionary war without him, we might not well have gotten a constitution without him, and we might not well have been able to find an orderly system of self-government. and we all stand on his shoulders. and washington was very big on listening to people who actually knew what they were doing. [laughter] and i mean this in a very specific, narrow way. because i'm not against listening to people who...
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make a fire and burned us to ashes. she's the deputies of the town, choose the need to instruct a stamp act. the two in the evening gathering crowd and march the house of the hated loyalist number one. shudders indiscriminate breaking stories to pieces, damaged partitions and one furniture. march 2 loyalist number two. tear his house to pieces that demolish furniture and rather silly. as for provision in march of the home of the stamp master. threaten his home if he doesn't resign. receive the promise of resignation, returned to the first homes to continue the destruction and the following morning, day 3% to selling real estate. so we have such violence reported in the newspapers and this is then a boston newspaper. so shortly bostonians were probably pleased to see what they had done previously was catching on in the other colonies here to set the desired effect they very much wanted. they prevented the enforcement of the hated stamp act. so what you see in the newspapers after this is all up and down the colonies the
make a fire and burned us to ashes. she's the deputies of the town, choose the need to instruct a stamp act. the two in the evening gathering crowd and march the house of the hated loyalist number one. shudders indiscriminate breaking stories to pieces, damaged partitions and one furniture. march 2 loyalist number two. tear his house to pieces that demolish furniture and rather silly. as for provision in march of the home of the stamp master. threaten his home if he doesn't resign. receive the...
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nbc would they use to make the costume? they used cereal boxes from the muscle kitchen. the white plates in front is a race krispies box and the one above it is from a cereal but i believe has not survived. i've never seen it. something called guido max. [laughter] there's layers of cultural complexity here because you got a japanese-american dancer engaging in a japanese dance in an american prison camp, making a costume out of boxes of american serial in the american serials they chose this race krispies, a concoction based on the staple of the japanese diet, race. so there's one other thing about this photograph that is a little surprising. the size and taxpayer in color, the fact they show japanese cultural entities rather than american cultural activities. but i want to give you a hint. it's not in the frame. there's something a little bit startling about the photograph that's not in the frame. any idea what they might be referring to? >> is surprised many people were allowed in. [inaudible] >> exactly. the thing that i'm alluding to is what is outside of the frame
nbc would they use to make the costume? they used cereal boxes from the muscle kitchen. the white plates in front is a race krispies box and the one above it is from a cereal but i believe has not survived. i've never seen it. something called guido max. [laughter] there's layers of cultural complexity here because you got a japanese-american dancer engaging in a japanese dance in an american prison camp, making a costume out of boxes of american serial in the american serials they chose this...
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we go where you send us and that's why you have us. we hope that there is no -- in the mission, that somehow we are justified and when we are found not to be and the movement for 10 years, i don't think anyone thinks iraq was the right decision to make now for a year after we have are there. but we stayed there for 10 years. >> vice president cheney and secretary rumsfeld probably think so. >> for some people it was a great idea. but the truth being that i voted and then i went to iraq and there i was. it no longer -- we were kind of above the politics in our hope and below politics in our utility. we weren't actively a part of the mechanism in a way which felt like we have a hand in our fate. and so when i was there, i went back in 2052 ramadi. by that point we knew we were wrong but my marines were being sent and to not go was intolerable to me. and of course that's when everything went wonderfully in terms of losing my parents and losing my friends through that entire tour. i left for 16 years. you get money for being there 20 but i
we go where you send us and that's why you have us. we hope that there is no -- in the mission, that somehow we are justified and when we are found not to be and the movement for 10 years, i don't think anyone thinks iraq was the right decision to make now for a year after we have are there. but we stayed there for 10 years. >> vice president cheney and secretary rumsfeld probably think so. >> for some people it was a great idea. but the truth being that i voted and then i went to...
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palestinians use the word zionism. so to say we want to honor and keep our focus on palestinians but don't you dare use that word seems to me hypocritical and wrong. [applause] so, because it's not really just about what we say as speakers, it's about what palestinians are -- you know, we're not the only speakers out there. i totally agree that we need to reach out to diverse audiences, to bring people along in some cases, to meet them with they're at to, you know, invite them on that journey, but where is our breaking point? and that is -- and i believe our breaking point is when we begin to, when we begin to lose sight of the fundamental basic rights of palestinians. [applause] >> so, um, thanks, anna. so as you can see, not only are jews not united on israel, they're not united in the way they oppose israel. [laughter] i want to follow up on norman's point about the question of audience. norman is arguing that talk of zionism, risks alienating the audience, boring the audience and that it's just not very practical t
palestinians use the word zionism. so to say we want to honor and keep our focus on palestinians but don't you dare use that word seems to me hypocritical and wrong. [applause] so, because it's not really just about what we say as speakers, it's about what palestinians are -- you know, we're not the only speakers out there. i totally agree that we need to reach out to diverse audiences, to bring people along in some cases, to meet them with they're at to, you know, invite them on that journey,...
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like us to interact with booktv guests with booktv gas and used to watch videos and get up-to-date information on events. facebook.com/booktv. >> with one month left in 2012, many publications are putting together their year-end lists of notable books. of tv will feature several of these lists focusing on nonfiction selections. these nonfiction titles were included in "the new york times" 100 notable books of 2012.
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it cannot win, but it can make us all losers. still levitate on the meaning of this great contest, we have assembled a distinguished panel of chambers intellectual and moral airs. peter berkowitz is the current. senior fellow at the hoover institution, where he chairs the hoover taskforce on national security and law and cochairs the hoover task force on the virtues of a free society. in the past he served as an associate professor at george mason university school of law and an assistant and associate professor at harvard university. he is the author of virtue and the making of modern liberalism and the ethics seven moralist. he holds that j.d. and a ph.d. in political science from this institution, a master's in philosophy from the hebrew university of jerusalem and a d.a. in english literature from swarthmore college. i feel sort of silly introducing these people because everyone knows who they are, but still, i have to. serve as the editor in chief of commentary magazine from 1960- 1995, and is their current editor at large.
it cannot win, but it can make us all losers. still levitate on the meaning of this great contest, we have assembled a distinguished panel of chambers intellectual and moral airs. peter berkowitz is the current. senior fellow at the hoover institution, where he chairs the hoover taskforce on national security and law and cochairs the hoover task force on the virtues of a free society. in the past he served as an associate professor at george mason university school of law and an assistant and...
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while he still had use of the office. they were all nice people and one day even got a glimpse of sinclair lewis. you will have memories of the printed word all the days of your life. when i reread this, it is how in many ways the publishing world that i entered as a writer in the late 1970s bore more resemblance to the publishing world of the 20s that he is describing. already then, a half-century gone and the one we have now, 35 years later. i remember the editor telling me i had to be ambitious and want to success. i had to imagine the book i was writing. when it actually happened, i learned from excited friend who had seen it and called me up. we race down there so she could photograph me in front of the store. it is now a benetton and a book would as likely as not be trying to catch someone's eye through the glass of their ipad rather than through a display window. i am romanticizing the past, but i have been struck by it today's youngest writers. my undergraduate students for instance at george washington university
while he still had use of the office. they were all nice people and one day even got a glimpse of sinclair lewis. you will have memories of the printed word all the days of your life. when i reread this, it is how in many ways the publishing world that i entered as a writer in the late 1970s bore more resemblance to the publishing world of the 20s that he is describing. already then, a half-century gone and the one we have now, 35 years later. i remember the editor telling me i had to be...
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--ard to use. >>host: i have got so much going on and i know you do to especially over the holidays. the last thing i want to do is try download the video or read a tutorial. people tell me about a book i should get for this other camera, what? have time to read a book. but if you my today's special it could read a book to you. which i know a lot of your calling on. item number at the bottom of your screen. remember at midnight, colleen is coming up with a great today's special.she is going to start at 11.u see her, this is gone. it has been a great night for electronics and thank you for making that happen. camera. you know the photos you took over thanksgiving maybe there was a big party or family if you were not happy you should try this. and it is a big deal my friends.% not do olympus that often. only a couple times a year. when you think about it, they are a prestige brand.one other thing i should point out you do not see retail value and normally do because olympus is sold elsewhere. how luc
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in joy and shot pu joy and shop with us throughout the whole coun enjoy shop with us. you can always send the back to us if you are not impressed with the quality with no problems. you are not gonna be able find anywhere else in the entire nation all your nfl teams. >>guest: the buffalo bills getting back on track with a quarterback that them to the jim kelly days when they have the four straight super bowls. >>host: we talked about how the game change for every do this point of the season one is not happening question mark ever >>guest: buddy this time this season is banged up and hurt and these are important weeks for them to get themselves back and ready and prepared for the playoff run. was great when teams lot of things early because when they get back they haven't played at the high performance r. pique they haven't had the feel as hard as they did in the beginning this is a time in helping the sometimes is a way to set to back a little bit. get to madden going. >>host: if you are done your couple weeks to play and maybe you are out of red army corps to experimen
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this shouldn't be a surprise to us. it's not as if, if i could use the metaphor, that congress was going along in a bus and -- on a ride through the country and suddenly came to the end of the road and there was a cliff. this shouldn't be a surprise to us. we -- we -- we created this cliff ourselves a year and a half ago when we adopted the budget control act. and we created it for a very good reason: because we knew that we had proven ourselves incapable of making the compromises that were necessary to achieve the long-term bipartisan debt-reduction program that america desperately needs. we're over $16.4 trillion in debt. i'm in my last days as a u.s. senator. if you'd told me when i started that we'd be $16 trillion in debt, i wouldn't have believed it. frankly, if you told me just a dozen years ago at the end of the clinton administration when we were in surplus that we could possibly be $16 trillion in de debt, i would have thought -- well, i would have thought you were not reality-tested. but here we are, and most
this shouldn't be a surprise to us. it's not as if, if i could use the metaphor, that congress was going along in a bus and -- on a ride through the country and suddenly came to the end of the road and there was a cliff. this shouldn't be a surprise to us. we -- we -- we created this cliff ourselves a year and a half ago when we adopted the budget control act. and we created it for a very good reason: because we knew that we had proven ourselves incapable of making the compromises that were...
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for use, and they did. in fact it became impossible to use recreational vehicles and to go out and maintain the plans that became more onerous so we wound up giving goes up. now of course, when they want to put the solar installation out there and they say yes that sounds like a great idea and they talk about things like gentle rolling on the top of the cactus that to 100 years to grow back and they relocate the tortoise is even though the mortality rate when they move them as ridiculously high and of course if you did maliciously you would be in jail and that no longer matters because they want their solar fields. and the same is true since they happen to notice people don't about in the mojave desert so it is okay to run the power line through the state parks to get them to the city's whereas before this he couldn't even look at a state park was the idea of running power lines through it. without i'm going to turn this over to alex that will step us through the fallacies and the rise of the entire scienti
for use, and they did. in fact it became impossible to use recreational vehicles and to go out and maintain the plans that became more onerous so we wound up giving goes up. now of course, when they want to put the solar installation out there and they say yes that sounds like a great idea and they talk about things like gentle rolling on the top of the cactus that to 100 years to grow back and they relocate the tortoise is even though the mortality rate when they move them as ridiculously high...
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you will use it all the time something you will use more often than you ever use your computer. - >>guest: because you will always with you and people ask how in the world as holder pad all by itself it is all with done with the candy e holder adjustable universal tablet item #177-84 if it will fit size tablet it is less for $40 i think it is brilliant because it will make your tablet so much easier to use.and 5 by this tonight i would also ask for that easy holder. not only does candle you give you a beautiful graphics display it the capability of turning it on its side and on limited memory this is what it means when you go to the amazon apps store which will show you in a minute. youownload books movies you can buy apps or download them but with other tablets when they get full because you filled them up with apps their full there have a hard memories so you can't load anything else until you delete. this is not the case with the kindle fire because everything is stored on amazons cloud so it is stored remotely and amazon house the space they will see 67 on servers for you. so as long
you will use it all the time something you will use more often than you ever use your computer. - >>guest: because you will always with you and people ask how in the world as holder pad all by itself it is all with done with the candy e holder adjustable universal tablet item #177-84 if it will fit size tablet it is less for $40 i think it is brilliant because it will make your tablet so much easier to use.and 5 by this tonight i would also ask for that easy holder. not only does candle...
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>> elizabeth worked with us in the 1990s and did a lot of writing for us. she worked at the same radio scripts on the radio show in the 90s. so she understands entrepreneur capitalism, a very capable writer and also helped edit a book i did before these called the flat tax revolution, advocating flat tax. so she's got the ability and the knowledge, so i put her to good use. >> as you well know, a flat tax or any tax reform would need to go through the legislative process. what is your current opinion of congress and some of the debate they are having or not having about economic matter? >> will take the tax thing. most people now recognize as good to simplify the thing and what really stunned me is the sense in both commission when the president that with the deficit a couple years ago. democrats signed on to the idea of simplicity and reducing tax rates across the board. they didn't go as far as the flat tax, but they addressed the concept and on entitlements there needs to be fundamental reform. so i think after the election was going to be the surprise n
>> elizabeth worked with us in the 1990s and did a lot of writing for us. she worked at the same radio scripts on the radio show in the 90s. so she understands entrepreneur capitalism, a very capable writer and also helped edit a book i did before these called the flat tax revolution, advocating flat tax. so she's got the ability and the knowledge, so i put her to good use. >> as you well know, a flat tax or any tax reform would need to go through the legislative process. what is...
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he joins us here on our set in miami.d. nestor rothkopf, a lot of people think that government and big business go hand-in-hand. hand in hand. >> they do go hand in hand but government playing field for power so business in -- introduces itself to guide it in the direction it wants to go but a lot of people in big business or the financial community would prefer if it went on in their way unimpeded by government so that is another front in this particular power struggle. >> one of the points you make in "power, inc." is there are some multinational corporations and make more money, control more money than most governments on earth. >> big companies like walmart have more employees than smaller countries in the world but a country like a company like exxon has revenues that are bigger than the gdp of 30 or 40 countries on earth and therefore it has resources that allow it to set up offices in more countries than most countries have embassies, put more money toward influencing outcomes and political campaigns, to a greater ex
he joins us here on our set in miami.d. nestor rothkopf, a lot of people think that government and big business go hand-in-hand. hand in hand. >> they do go hand in hand but government playing field for power so business in -- introduces itself to guide it in the direction it wants to go but a lot of people in big business or the financial community would prefer if it went on in their way unimpeded by government so that is another front in this particular power struggle. >> one of...
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us know. >>host: is is the first time you have done gold vermeil. >>host: these are natural of the earth and stones, mother nature, thought given bassets, 18 cassettes and that is why there are so rare that is because nothing comes out of ground like this. >>guest: that is what makes them so magical day are a treasure perry said it is amazing to me that this is a god- given at little gem . >>host: this is gone. >>guest: you will love it. >>guest: >>host: of a couple more we will squeeze and but this is the station and this is so beautiful. this in sterling silver is so, you can the speckles. >>guest: in san lerwick or you think of it to someone to want something sparkly but not too much. >>host: 1 in my face book was saying she but this tennis bracelet and she has never taken it off.about the herkimer% , there for everyday wear, this is where cobblestoned and that is what your jewelry is about. he designed for world woman to love to sparkle in love to have glamour and sparkle but it is not jew
us know. >>host: is is the first time you have done gold vermeil. >>host: these are natural of the earth and stones, mother nature, thought given bassets, 18 cassettes and that is why there are so rare that is because nothing comes out of ground like this. >>guest: that is what makes them so magical day are a treasure perry said it is amazing to me that this is a god- given at little gem . >>host: this is gone. >>guest: you will love it. >>guest:...
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with the limits of presidency the democrats use that saying. it's kind of a democratic rejoinder but what made it scandalous, grover cleveland's best friend and law partner was a guy named oscar fulsome. cleveland was born in new jersey and he spent most of his career in buffalo. he was a very successful lawyer and he and oscar were partners. they practice law together and they went out together and they would go out drinking and being together and it appears they enjoyed the services of maria halpern and together so when maria halpern and gets pregnant she has a son and neither knew who the father was. maria complicates things by naming the child oscar cleveland oscar fulsome had been married and had a daughter, frances. wheatland was a bachelors of cleveland accepted the responsibility and put the child in an orphanage. here's the other part of the scandal. oscar fulsome dies a few years later in a carriage accident. he is thrown from an apparently breaks his neck. he leaves a widow and a young girl frances and globe -- rover leave and make s
with the limits of presidency the democrats use that saying. it's kind of a democratic rejoinder but what made it scandalous, grover cleveland's best friend and law partner was a guy named oscar fulsome. cleveland was born in new jersey and he spent most of his career in buffalo. he was a very successful lawyer and he and oscar were partners. they practice law together and they went out together and they would go out drinking and being together and it appears they enjoyed the services of maria...
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there are wrongdoers the government can protect us from them. overly meddlesome government goes to fire and you end up suppressing enterprise and innovation and job creation. >> 2008 financial situation and the so-called bailout. are you supportive of that government intervention? >> release the question and answer of the book basically. you can see that as an emergency intervention. this government had done it back now, that would've been fine. unfortunately they stayed too long. the comparison they make is to katrina. there's emergency aid and basically people get up and back on their feet. but unfortunately the government conceded the financial crisis as an excuse to expand itself and expand control of the economy. >> at what point would you say that government should have out as the emergency aid and click >> they did allow banks that wanted to pay the money. obviously they're making it difficult. they make and keep it it up for saddam those who didn't want bailouts in the first place. so basically, some people really have argued that the fa
there are wrongdoers the government can protect us from them. overly meddlesome government goes to fire and you end up suppressing enterprise and innovation and job creation. >> 2008 financial situation and the so-called bailout. are you supportive of that government intervention? >> release the question and answer of the book basically. you can see that as an emergency intervention. this government had done it back now, that would've been fine. unfortunately they stayed too long....
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we live in an age in which distance is dead, in which every sickle one of us -- single one of us could just telecommute in to whatever business employs us, occupying whatever spot appeals to our biofill ya, and yet in so many ways we choose urban life. we choose the inconveniences, the high cost of living in urban areas. despite the fact that the tech no profits and the cyber sears 20 years ago predicted all this new technology would make cities obsolete. and yet google, which of all the companies in the world should have access to the best long distance working technology, what do they do? they build the google plex so their workers can be right next to one another. silicon valley, right? practically the most famous geographic cluster in the world is also the industry which is the most technologically savvy. why is it that all this new technology far from making face to face contact in the cities that make it obsolete seems to be hypercharging our cities? this relatively rosy view is very unlike the new york of my youth. i was born in manhattan in 1967. i say that warily in the boston
we live in an age in which distance is dead, in which every sickle one of us -- single one of us could just telecommute in to whatever business employs us, occupying whatever spot appeals to our biofill ya, and yet in so many ways we choose urban life. we choose the inconveniences, the high cost of living in urban areas. despite the fact that the tech no profits and the cyber sears 20 years ago predicted all this new technology would make cities obsolete. and yet google, which of all the...
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and into every classroom using video and the internet. we need to recognize and education assistance designed for an agrarian era and give kids the summer of doesn't make sense and an educational system designed for people having one career in their lives beginning when they turn 21 and extending 20 years after that doesn't work and people need lifelong education and we need to educate people for the skills that are required by the evolve and high value-added economy and that doesn't just mean skills like math and science although we are lagging behind 30 or 40 other countries in the world in that regard. it also means skills associated with creativity and innovation because our edge as a country comes in the area where we can use our creativity but we also protect creativity in a way that places like china and others don't. in a content driven world, software driven world, that combination of creative people, a system that promotes and protect creativity is probably the real ace in the hole. >> host: let's take bob's comment and tie that
and into every classroom using video and the internet. we need to recognize and education assistance designed for an agrarian era and give kids the summer of doesn't make sense and an educational system designed for people having one career in their lives beginning when they turn 21 and extending 20 years after that doesn't work and people need lifelong education and we need to educate people for the skills that are required by the evolve and high value-added economy and that doesn't just mean...
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he joins us this week on "the communicators." mr. blum, why did you travel to milwaukee when you were researching "tubes"? >> guest: well, the big challenge for me at the beginning was to try to make our virtual world as tangible as possible, and when i found out one of the major maps of the internet called telegeography was actually printed at a big printing press in milwaukee, that they actually made the effort to travel there, to sort of go and watch this thing come off this giant school bus-sized machine, that seemed like a great way into the story of figuring out not only where the internet is, but also trying to sort of meditate a bit and come to terms with what is still physical about our virtual world. and it turned out that one thing that is still, of course, physical is very large printing presses and, strangely enough, very large printing presses that print maps of the internet. so i followed my map maker, a guy named marcus, to see this map actually come off the press. >> host: is there a center of the universe when it co
he joins us this week on "the communicators." mr. blum, why did you travel to milwaukee when you were researching "tubes"? >> guest: well, the big challenge for me at the beginning was to try to make our virtual world as tangible as possible, and when i found out one of the major maps of the internet called telegeography was actually printed at a big printing press in milwaukee, that they actually made the effort to travel there, to sort of go and watch this thing come...
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and talk to us. it will be more human like in thinking. >> guest: more integrated in our field of view so we don't actually have to interact with a a little box. it will be more seem less than that and eventually go inside our bodies. that is not tomorrow. that is decades away. another one of the trends i talked about in my previous book the singularity is near, information technology is progressing exponentially. performance and size, they are shrinking and the rate of 150 volumes per decade. these will be blood cell size in 2013s 42040s. we will put them in our blood stream to keep us healthy but they will go inside the brain, act as biological neurons, just to put those biological neurons as gateways to the clout and we can expand beyond three hundred billion pattern recognizers we have. one question is is that a lot for a little? it was a lot compared to other mammals so it enabled us to create art and science and technology but is little compared to what it is like because if you think about the
and talk to us. it will be more human like in thinking. >> guest: more integrated in our field of view so we don't actually have to interact with a a little box. it will be more seem less than that and eventually go inside our bodies. that is not tomorrow. that is decades away. another one of the trends i talked about in my previous book the singularity is near, information technology is progressing exponentially. performance and size, they are shrinking and the rate of 150 volumes per...
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he writes about this and i used him. basically the idea is that hamilton and washington and everyone was saying during the war, these british are making us pay. they created this idea public debt and that funds their army and its horrible. they are making us pay as columnist. we have to pay the higher prices on stuff to fund their debt. they go to war and its horrible. they come to the army and they say why don't we start the public debt. we will start that whole sinking fund thing which they do and after the war hamilton is trying to create the modern economy that people extol him for now and it's a great giant financial thing but to pay for you know the bonds, the profit on the bond, they are basically using these farmers to boil it all down the tax. >> it sounds to me like trouble. >> exactly, exactly so washington gets off his horse and he turns around. he gets off then he turns back to washington after he makes it halfway there. he turns around and carlisle and hamilton takes it on. hamilton who is the great rival w
he writes about this and i used him. basically the idea is that hamilton and washington and everyone was saying during the war, these british are making us pay. they created this idea public debt and that funds their army and its horrible. they are making us pay as columnist. we have to pay the higher prices on stuff to fund their debt. they go to war and its horrible. they come to the army and they say why don't we start the public debt. we will start that whole sinking fund thing which they...
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joining us to help us are two guests in our new york studio, sarah weinman is the news director for "publishers marketplace" and bob minitz heymer is the book reviewer and reporter for "usa today." .. publishing operations, the google settlement moving forward in different directions. those olympic first stage apportion of bush publishing news. on the nonfiction front is a very strong year. in particular receipt of the best of 2012 list dominated by the likes of catherine coos behind beautiful forever is the witch was the winner of the national book award. the ongoing biography of lyndon johnson and andrew solomon's fire from the tree, only recently published over 900 each companion he had the king of different child-rearing examples of special needs children. so these two books on a very substantial books, but they're the tip the iceberg of nonfiction. >> host: minzesheimer, same question. >> guest: it was a big year for dead presidents. she remember robert harris is the fourth of five on monday june 10, which was just an incredible act of both reporting and writing about a secret 20
joining us to help us are two guests in our new york studio, sarah weinman is the news director for "publishers marketplace" and bob minitz heymer is the book reviewer and reporter for "usa today." .. publishing operations, the google settlement moving forward in different directions. those olympic first stage apportion of bush publishing news. on the nonfiction front is a very strong year. in particular receipt of the best of 2012 list dominated by the likes of catherine...
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he was just sending crews to seize the ships and use them against us. so the british came up with an idea to seize as many friendships as they possibly could, a very secret operation. and this was within days of the french-german agreement of jun june 22. and the idea was that where the french ships might of been in british courts, because some of them have escaped or scattered, somewhere in portsmouth, england, plymouth, england. a lot were in alexandria, egypt, where the french, or the british had a large fleet. and the two biggest but not quite finished battleships of the french fled to the car west africa and casablanca. but there was a very large hotel in a place called, on the algerian coast but for a couple of battleships, some big cruisers. and the british came up with this idea, they called it operational catapult. on the morning of july 3, they were going to seize as many friendships as they possibly could by agreement, hopefully, but if not, by force. and they figured in portsmouth and plymouth, england, this would be fairly easy because thes
he was just sending crews to seize the ships and use them against us. so the british came up with an idea to seize as many friendships as they possibly could, a very secret operation. and this was within days of the french-german agreement of jun june 22. and the idea was that where the french ships might of been in british courts, because some of them have escaped or scattered, somewhere in portsmouth, england, plymouth, england. a lot were in alexandria, egypt, where the french, or the...
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she resented not being useful, not doing something meaningful. perhaps that is why a foreign travel appeal to her. during her chips overseas, she felt that she was playing an important role. she was representing americans interest abroad. her introduction to role as american representative came during her first year a second lady. president eisenhower sent his vice president on a tour beginning in asian continuing to parts of the subcontinent. during the fall of 1953. president eisenhower told the vice president that he should take pat with them. she realize that this trip is going to be work but it was going to be interesting. pat describes it in scrappy the same words and letters she wrote to her good friend next month. along the minimal on drivers that included a military aide, state department representative, a flight surgeon, three pass representatives, two secret service agents, nixon's administrative assistant and the only other woman on the trip, rosemary woods, the nixon's embarked on their 42,000-mile journey. and a little more than two
she resented not being useful, not doing something meaningful. perhaps that is why a foreign travel appeal to her. during her chips overseas, she felt that she was playing an important role. she was representing americans interest abroad. her introduction to role as american representative came during her first year a second lady. president eisenhower sent his vice president on a tour beginning in asian continuing to parts of the subcontinent. during the fall of 1953. president eisenhower told...
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is that some uses, those uses that qualify as transformative uses should be available without fee which is the same proposition that about the operation. >> we can agree some uses are fair use. >> i will -- my -- never argue points of law with a lawyer especially on copyright on the other side of the case. let me say this in layman's terms and speaking as a layman and as a professor and a scholar or a writer who relies on fair use. i believe in fair use. i could not do what i'd do without fair use but within fair use there is a doctrine called france formative use which you just mentioned and that is a camel that opens into the tent, destroys my mind what fair use is intended to mean and that is what i would call a radical notion of transformative use that you can copy and entire book, not little bits and pieces, you are talking about the whole thing. i think higher courts will resolve that the supreme court has a much more conservative and fair view of fair use that doesn't allow people guiding of fair use. >> i have a fair bit to say here. i would say first of all, when you look at we
is that some uses, those uses that qualify as transformative uses should be available without fee which is the same proposition that about the operation. >> we can agree some uses are fair use. >> i will -- my -- never argue points of law with a lawyer especially on copyright on the other side of the case. let me say this in layman's terms and speaking as a layman and as a professor and a scholar or a writer who relies on fair use. i believe in fair use. i could not do what i'd do...
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you can tweet us at booktv, comment on our facebook wall, or send us an e-mail. tv, nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. >> with just days left in this month and this year, many publications are putting together a year and a list of notable books. booktv will feature several of these lists focusing on nonfiction selection. these titles were included in the "christian science monitor"'s 15 best books of 2012-nonfiction. >> for an extended list of links to various
you can tweet us at booktv, comment on our facebook wall, or send us an e-mail. tv, nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. >> with just days left in this month and this year, many publications are putting together a year and a list of notable books. booktv will feature several of these lists focusing on nonfiction selection. these titles were included in the "christian science monitor"'s 15 best books of 2012-nonfiction. >> for an extended list of links to various
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from books that used to be recorded pretty much on tape, the old cassette tape idea to using the latest in digital technology, and we're very excited about this transition because that makes it faster, cheaper, more efficient to get good quality reading materials to people when they need it. the service, obviously, is designed for the government to be sure that people have equal collections and access to the materials and in the spirit of all the public libraries in the country, and we have over 15,000 libraries. we have more public libraries than mcdonald's, we have a chance with the service like this to be sure that everyone has a chance to be well-informed citizens, which, obviously, is most critical, but, also to enjoy the rewards of being able to read great novels and great literature and be part of the world around them. we call ourselves the talking book and braille library. we could probably be the talking book library in part because braille ask not as popular as it used to be. braille is expensive to produce. uses a lot of paper. it is a paper-based technology. familiar quotat
from books that used to be recorded pretty much on tape, the old cassette tape idea to using the latest in digital technology, and we're very excited about this transition because that makes it faster, cheaper, more efficient to get good quality reading materials to people when they need it. the service, obviously, is designed for the government to be sure that people have equal collections and access to the materials and in the spirit of all the public libraries in the country, and we have...
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is their anything that you might be able to tell us? i accept your diagnosis and prognosis but could you give some speech into what we could do to actually keep this experiment in self-government going? meter even after you and your last statement on how it can start in education. >> on go through it all day. my wife and i got a 13-year-old at home and we are trying to find him a school that is not in the pond. i think it's important to tell the truth. one doesn't have to be politically confrontational. it's not productive and i don't think it is polite, but i think once in awhile when we have the opportunity of someone comes to us and says you know what would you explain your positions to me as i assure all of you do happen to be conservative i would be happy to please tell me where i am wrong and other than that i don't know what we can do because i haven't slept in the last 50 years i don't know if anybody here has and it's enough already to but i don't think it's the most important election i think is the most important since 1860.
is their anything that you might be able to tell us? i accept your diagnosis and prognosis but could you give some speech into what we could do to actually keep this experiment in self-government going? meter even after you and your last statement on how it can start in education. >> on go through it all day. my wife and i got a 13-year-old at home and we are trying to find him a school that is not in the pond. i think it's important to tell the truth. one doesn't have to be politically...
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childhood does not leave us we cover it up but we carry it to all and that trail that is us. it is history. it is all there but when it chooses to reveal itself or find a way back is the great unknown and it is the concern every veteran has. "the daily beast" by talk about that. these things wait. sometimes you need a larger context. people are tough and we have a wonderful ability to read press as one of our greatest gifts. we're built to be afraid. you can turn that off and say thanks for the message that you can also repress certain things to survive them because you cannot handle them. the book was born at of my parents' deaths. my daughter was one-year-old when i got home she did not know me and within one year i had lost both of my parents. i had enough deaths and i was not the one that left. shockingly. i was the one who survived. and confronting my parents' death i realized my incredible ability to disbelief that which is inevitable. the talks about the mortality of our parents. relearn it is wrong. but we don't believe it. who knows? but i completely agree and i am g
childhood does not leave us we cover it up but we carry it to all and that trail that is us. it is history. it is all there but when it chooses to reveal itself or find a way back is the great unknown and it is the concern every veteran has. "the daily beast" by talk about that. these things wait. sometimes you need a larger context. people are tough and we have a wonderful ability to read press as one of our greatest gifts. we're built to be afraid. you can turn that off and say...
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adore used the word anythinger in some of her short stories. she wasn't using it to be a racist. rather, she was using is as an artist to de-legitimate race simple. that's what i meant. obviously there are black people, too who have used the term nigger in ways that in my view, are completely unobjectionable. dick gregory titled his first autobiography, "nigger "an autobiography." and richard pryor with two great albums, "that nigger is crazy" and bicentennial nigger." >> host: when you wrote the book, it was published in 2002. what reaction did you get? >> host: when i do. >> guest: when i wrote the book i got a lot of reaction, some positive and some negative. and continue to get some positive reactions and negative reactions. some people took real offense at the title. if there was one aspect of the book that probably got me the most negative reaction was people who complained about the title, and who thought that i was being sensationalist, i was exploiting this term by putting it right there in the title, right there on the cover of a book that would appear in your book stor
adore used the word anythinger in some of her short stories. she wasn't using it to be a racist. rather, she was using is as an artist to de-legitimate race simple. that's what i meant. obviously there are black people, too who have used the term nigger in ways that in my view, are completely unobjectionable. dick gregory titled his first autobiography, "nigger "an autobiography." and richard pryor with two great albums, "that nigger is crazy" and bicentennial...
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there are many different ways use the on-screen keyboard. >>host: >>host: v>>host: >>host:people 1 no cut browser the candle fire is using. >>guest: kindle fire uses what they call amazon and it has that bass dual-core processor which makes everything lightning fast. you will receivethisdle fire and i do not know about you but i loved and brite birds especially angry bird star wars that's one of my favorites. >>host: let the kids play and set them up gaby for an hour a day and let them know once they're done bacon reeboks and to educational lapse. it would amazons supporting it and the free everyday, access to books and videos this is the experience for everybody went and it is the right size to travel. because you also shop bearded to sign it is 100 percent right price and this is a way to get both kids in the house of love to iman and sun and news tablets they can learn together and it is really a way to support everybody else it is for under $40 on a credit card to get hornell. whereunto pay your shipping and handling there's no delay or
there are many different ways use the on-screen keyboard. >>host: >>host: v>>host: >>host:people 1 no cut browser the candle fire is using. >>guest: kindle fire uses what they call amazon and it has that bass dual-core processor which makes everything lightning fast. you will receivethisdle fire and i do not know about you but i loved and brite birds especially angry bird star wars that's one of my favorites. >>host: let the kids play and set them up gaby for...
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do they want to just take our business away from us and abandon us, or do they realize that they will fail if we fail? and so the new york publishing industry does have a big question to answer as they go through this merger process. do you want your independent booksellers, your brick and mortar booksellers? because i would even include barnes & noble in there, too, do you want them to survive, or do you just want to get bigger? we've always been at the forefront of anything that could help us from the technology world. we got the database together back in the early '80s and were one of the first to go on to a computer system. so once you got -- that was, we wrapped our mind around that project, then we were able to make the store more profitable. but over the years, um, most recently is that in order to diversify we started our own digital book-on-demand business called the troy bookmakers where we make books. we literally physically make books. we, um, we take the manuscript, we format it into a book, we print the pages, we dip it in glue, we trim it up, slap a cover on it, and we
do they want to just take our business away from us and abandon us, or do they realize that they will fail if we fail? and so the new york publishing industry does have a big question to answer as they go through this merger process. do you want your independent booksellers, your brick and mortar booksellers? because i would even include barnes & noble in there, too, do you want them to survive, or do you just want to get bigger? we've always been at the forefront of anything that could...
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tell us and generalize for us, historians have not typically have access to anything resembling this kind of material with the exception of nixon and whatever. how were we to regard the source of information? what is it? you have to check it? is a good way to his? >> i think it is good to go. what is wonderful about these tapes is the immediacy of them. also, we do have other presidential tapes to listen to. one of the things that i actually love about these tapes of the conversations between president kennedy and his brother. when you listen to the nixon tapes, they have a certain quality. then you listen to the two kennedy brothers talking about how mean this guy is. it sounds so quaint as opposed to some of what we heard on the nixon tapes. i'm sure that there were other words used to describe problematic figures. but it really brings you back to a different moment sometimes. >> is impossible to get some insight -- maybe fresh insight about how a president works? in other words, if you have access to his behavior in the oval office, giving and taking off and at the moment of decis
tell us and generalize for us, historians have not typically have access to anything resembling this kind of material with the exception of nixon and whatever. how were we to regard the source of information? what is it? you have to check it? is a good way to his? >> i think it is good to go. what is wonderful about these tapes is the immediacy of them. also, we do have other presidential tapes to listen to. one of the things that i actually love about these tapes of the conversations...
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, and i used to make deliveries. were people in the lofts? >> i don't think so. it's the business owners on the street didn't want me and my friends doing what we were doing back there, so -- [laughter] >> when i first, it's changed even in the four years since i represented that place. when i first arrived, it felt like kind of the best possible version of what, you know, i thought detroit could be. it was just such a vibrant mix of people, you know. laz, a personal chef. there was, like, djs, and john sinclaire was around a lot, rock history, and, you know, ron scott, who's, you know, a great local character, founded the local chapter of the black panthers back then. such a wild mix of people, and such a sort of tight community, and, so that, yeah, that's one neighborhood that i would, even though it's just a single block, that i would point to. >> the bonfires. >> yeah, there's a fire pit in the back and people would hang out around the bonfire, and literally, it's eastern market. >> right. >> the other neighborho
, and i used to make deliveries. were people in the lofts? >> i don't think so. it's the business owners on the street didn't want me and my friends doing what we were doing back there, so -- [laughter] >> when i first, it's changed even in the four years since i represented that place. when i first arrived, it felt like kind of the best possible version of what, you know, i thought detroit could be. it was just such a vibrant mix of people, you know. laz, a personal chef. there...
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told anyone whether he would actually use them. he could not, of course, or the threat would not be credible. talk about the loneliness of command. ike knew about the command from the north after -- africa campaign, d-day, germany, and liberation of europe. ike smoked four packs a day as a general, quit cold turkey in 1949. he gave himself an order to quit, he said. he had a heart attack in 1955, and operation in 1956, a small stroke in 1957, doctors worried about the blood pressure and ordering him to worry less. what do they they the job is, he said? he tried to relax playing golf. he played 800 times as president, a record, but golf was the wrong game for a perfectionist. he was grim on the course, and once through a chipping wedge at a doctor, howard snyder, when snyder tried to make him feel better about a shot from the bunker. he had a tumper. his mother would quote the bible saying he the conquer their own soul is greater than he who takes a city. ike would say his mother taught him how to control the temper. one of the aids
told anyone whether he would actually use them. he could not, of course, or the threat would not be credible. talk about the loneliness of command. ike knew about the command from the north after -- africa campaign, d-day, germany, and liberation of europe. ike smoked four packs a day as a general, quit cold turkey in 1949. he gave himself an order to quit, he said. he had a heart attack in 1955, and operation in 1956, a small stroke in 1957, doctors worried about the blood pressure and...
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to protect us against individuals, groups, corporations that would do us harm. >> host: as governor, did you, did you shrink the size of the state government? do you -- you used your veto pen quite a bit, but were you able to shrink the size of the federal -- >> guest: when it came to dollars, i was able to cut the rate of growth in half x that was the historical rate of growth. i always pointed at state government employees. over an eight-year period, there were 1200 fewer state employees starting with 12,000, ending with 10,800. it was a 10% reduction in state government employees which i always pointed out unquestionably said that, hey, we were doing things more efficiently because we were doing things with fewer state employees, and we were doing more things. i'd like to point out that the real driver of state budgets state to state is medicaid. and that, of course, is a federal entitlement, and you really -- it's open-ended. and that's what has us in the predicament that we have are the entitlements, medicaid, medicare, social security to a lesser degree. but we have to address
to protect us against individuals, groups, corporations that would do us harm. >> host: as governor, did you, did you shrink the size of the state government? do you -- you used your veto pen quite a bit, but were you able to shrink the size of the federal -- >> guest: when it came to dollars, i was able to cut the rate of growth in half x that was the historical rate of growth. i always pointed at state government employees. over an eight-year period, there were 1200 fewer state...
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i do without fair use. but within that, there is said doctrine called transformative use. that is a camel that is once in the tent destroys what fair use is intended to mean. and the judge had a radical notion of transformative use to copy an entire book.
i do without fair use. but within that, there is said doctrine called transformative use. that is a camel that is once in the tent destroys what fair use is intended to mean. and the judge had a radical notion of transformative use to copy an entire book.
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tweet us your feedback, twitter.com/booktv. >>> and now joining us on booktv is an old washington hand and that is ambassador stewart. he's an author, the future of jews is the name of the book. ambassador, why are you writing a book about the future of the jews? >> we have survived 3,000 years of calamityies and we survived and leave thrived and contributed to societies even those that didn't want us. now we have a whole new set of 21st century challenges, and the question is having survived those terrible times, can we now survive prosperity, success, and integration? and i look at this from two perspective, the global forces that affect america, american jews, and israel, everything from the shift of power to united states and the west to china and the east hours of globalization in the digital era. how to deal with the 1.6 muslims in the world, the threat of iranian nuclear power, and i also look at internal threats, low birthrates, assimilation, and again, whether we can, in effect, succeed at the time when we are more successful than ever in being integrated to our society. it's
tweet us your feedback, twitter.com/booktv. >>> and now joining us on booktv is an old washington hand and that is ambassador stewart. he's an author, the future of jews is the name of the book. ambassador, why are you writing a book about the future of the jews? >> we have survived 3,000 years of calamityies and we survived and leave thrived and contributed to societies even those that didn't want us. now we have a whole new set of 21st century challenges, and the question is...
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i use that, why i say that is i use that because that's what they do. it's time which is stored back at them. even if it's a joke. [applause] they are people. they are people. they are some of my favorite people but they don't own, they don't own the turf that is ready to. so why is it cool versus uncool importantly it won an election. the reason people like barack obama is he is cool. he beat a war hero, a community activist and an organizer be the war hero for years ago. how did that happen? kessy was cool. it was cool to vote for him. the culture embraces fake gold is over real achievement. kids would rather play astronaut and actually be one. more interesting been famous than becoming a nation at and actually doing something. but i will say this. i am, there's a really big bright spot to president obama being reelected. it is like tearing off a band-aid. if he lost he would be bad for another four years. we would be 45 more% greater, which makes him more trustwort trustworthy. [laughter] so we are uncool. that's the way we are. that's how we are. i
i use that, why i say that is i use that because that's what they do. it's time which is stored back at them. even if it's a joke. [applause] they are people. they are people. they are some of my favorite people but they don't own, they don't own the turf that is ready to. so why is it cool versus uncool importantly it won an election. the reason people like barack obama is he is cool. he beat a war hero, a community activist and an organizer be the war hero for years ago. how did that happen?...
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but what they used to do to win. and so they start with these things that used to be victories . really important as we move forward. you don't let -- that we figure out a way to say, yes, we're winning unless. and the. [indiscernible] it is a victory living in the right direction so that we -- we have a lot of frustration. we need to figure out. >> cleaning this up a bit, political reform. there is a pattern, i don't want to exaggerate too much, but a little bit. the pattern is that after some political debacle or policy like in the 2000 election people come together and get something done, but it is not the priority of the progressives. a fairly short order, the political reform agenda, the process agenda, you know, drops into the background. people go about issues like justice for jobs. so i think that this sense of the long term is absolutely right. it took decades. toward the end of the book i list one after the other, the big challenges that the country has to deal with. and in health, education, on and on and on. about 25 things. it's shocking really. .. start with john ad
but what they used to do to win. and so they start with these things that used to be victories . really important as we move forward. you don't let -- that we figure out a way to say, yes, we're winning unless. and the. [indiscernible] it is a victory living in the right direction so that we -- we have a lot of frustration. we need to figure out. >> cleaning this up a bit, political reform. there is a pattern, i don't want to exaggerate too much, but a little bit. the pattern is that...
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we found books that shook us, filled us with joy and gladness, that sunned us to -- summoned us to courage and wonder. that used language in astounding ways. that surprised us what are narrative could do or we found books that brought beauty to the world of young readers and brought knowledge and understanding to the young world and brought wisdom to the world. we found books and this saint august seen that served the young readers in moving way and found the five finalists. these were the others who took that journey with me on that road. judith boar tease. susan cooper. dan yell, it's a great honor to be a part of the committee with you. i knew i would find wisdom in you all. i never expected to find friends. thank you for your labor and high and noble courtesy and kindness. for your belief that writing for young people is critically important for our culture. in such strangely troubled dais brought me back to hope. thank you. [applause] the five finalists are william alexander. goblin secrets. published. [cheering and applause] "out of reach" [cheering and applause] a story of the eleve
we found books that shook us, filled us with joy and gladness, that sunned us to -- summoned us to courage and wonder. that used language in astounding ways. that surprised us what are narrative could do or we found books that brought beauty to the world of young readers and brought knowledge and understanding to the young world and brought wisdom to the world. we found books and this saint august seen that served the young readers in moving way and found the five finalists. these were the...
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to be the ones we will use. i understand if you do not have dollar bills they will have to use coins and they are very popular in canada and they're so popular in matter-of-fact in europe there about to go where they now have anything less than a 10 year-old bill everything else is change and the reason is is because it is so much sauce money to do that. the net united states government has not done that yet and the $2 bills we are only making and what happened is they are not been available and you have to get huge premiums enables individual coins. 6 c13 ready have a couple of these and resold and inverse started and 2007 presidential dollar and i point to give you all of the007, 2008, 2008, 2011 coins and i am gonna give you the best minted and coins 2007 through 2000 and a 11. am bored to inc1. i am going to give you all 60 those dollar golden dollars for hundred and 9 $9.95 and a court- appointed and $79.170 upset the boy received a $13.50 apiece for the coins and your pain basically if you value the packag
to be the ones we will use. i understand if you do not have dollar bills they will have to use coins and they are very popular in canada and they're so popular in matter-of-fact in europe there about to go where they now have anything less than a 10 year-old bill everything else is change and the reason is is because it is so much sauce money to do that. the net united states government has not done that yet and the $2 bills we are only making and what happened is they are not been available...
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you can tweet us@booktv. comment on the big facebook wall or send us ab e-mail. >>> joining us now on booktv is author and professor wayne karlin who's most recent book is "wandering souls: journeys with the dead and the living in vietnam." professor, swhofs homer? >> he was a friend of mine who presently retired living in north carolina. he was a office platoon leader and company commander in the sam war. and he had contacted me a number of years ago because i had some contacts in vietnam vietnamese i had been working with. he had taken documents and a book from the body of an north vietnamese soldier he killed during the war, and wanted to see if he could find a family and return the documents to them. >> why? >> he had gone through decades much ptsd. he had a rough war. he had seen many of the own men killed, went through a lot of the patterns that people tend to go through with post-traumatic stress. adrenaline junkie, wrecked cars, he drank alcohol, had a headquartered time forming roits. -- relationship
you can tweet us@booktv. comment on the big facebook wall or send us ab e-mail. >>> joining us now on booktv is author and professor wayne karlin who's most recent book is "wandering souls: journeys with the dead and the living in vietnam." professor, swhofs homer? >> he was a friend of mine who presently retired living in north carolina. he was a office platoon leader and company commander in the sam war. and he had contacted me a number of years ago because i had some...
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we both use foreign languages in our poetry. he tends to use more sanskrit. actually don't know much of it. i was a kid who'd got dreamy during sanskrit class in kansas city, missouri. [laughter] to look out the window. i use some yiddish. [laughter] it is fair to say that t.s. eliot was not partial to yiddish. my shortest poem uses yiddish. it was called something like this societal political and philosophical implications of the o.j. simpson trial. the title does not count. the plan was o.j. or a vague [laughter] -o.j. oi vey and then -- we both use a little german when george w. bush appointed a retainer that rhymed roberto gonzales. we both cried about animals and he famously wrote a lot of things about cats. my daughter said once at the dinner table that daddy hates cats. i said daddy does not. that would be prejudice and you girls have been brought up to '04 her prejudice. daddy never met a cat that he liked. [laughter] i have written about the of corgi they look like a breed of dog that has been assembled from the other parts of dogs. not the part said
we both use foreign languages in our poetry. he tends to use more sanskrit. actually don't know much of it. i was a kid who'd got dreamy during sanskrit class in kansas city, missouri. [laughter] to look out the window. i use some yiddish. [laughter] it is fair to say that t.s. eliot was not partial to yiddish. my shortest poem uses yiddish. it was called something like this societal political and philosophical implications of the o.j. simpson trial. the title does not count. the plan was o.j....
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how many of us spend the second half of the trip apologizing. >>guest: sorry i did not thinkc13 sheets, a lot of times we do not think about that air mattress that is coming out or the town that is coming up because they're all of these additional piece set people you were not prepared for the make sure you have additional sets of sheetsw don't have to worry about pressing them, touching them, with the steamer or the iron, they will look as good as you are seeing them right now on television as a book in your bedroom, castro, few know somebody on your christmas list who loves their home to look perfect in you want to give them the gift of not having to struggle, work to make that bet look perfect this is the perfect gift for that homemaker who want it all but maybe there is no time. even if we do have did we really want to press the lennon's? >>host: insist from illinois, they just ordered the sheets-- c13 understand your height and of highgate manor, tell us about the quality of all of the highgate manor pieces. >>caller: i ordered a set last o
how many of us spend the second half of the trip apologizing. >>guest: sorry i did not thinkc13 sheets, a lot of times we do not think about that air mattress that is coming out or the town that is coming up because they're all of these additional piece set people you were not prepared for the make sure you have additional sets of sheetsw don't have to worry about pressing them, touching them, with the steamer or the iron, they will look as good as you are seeing them right now on...
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sportsmen were not used to have the government step in and scoop up land they were used to hunting and fishing on. so part of the mission was to explain the rationale for these refugees. one of these booklets was devoted not to a specific refuge, but to the subject of conservation generally. the booklet conservation inaction number five was published in 1948. it's really a landmark of conservation literature and all of these booklets demonstrated one of the things that is characteristic about carson's work for the government, which was and was often too good for the government. several occasions to his advice to take thing she had written and do something else with them because their supervisors thought the government really didn't deserve the kind of a poster of these booklets. although in fact these were sent out to universities and extension services. you could buy one from the u.s. printing office, but if she went to a wildlife refuge and stopped at the information kiosk, you could also pick one up and read about the refuge you are visiting. i will read from one of the season the d
sportsmen were not used to have the government step in and scoop up land they were used to hunting and fishing on. so part of the mission was to explain the rationale for these refugees. one of these booklets was devoted not to a specific refuge, but to the subject of conservation generally. the booklet conservation inaction number five was published in 1948. it's really a landmark of conservation literature and all of these booklets demonstrated one of the things that is characteristic about...
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, ruling us at exploiting us that it's necessary to point to them and see you, you were one of those so to people overseas. >> well, i wish we were at date on a happier topic, but please join me in thanking dr. wole soyinka. [applause] >> you're watching tv on c-span 2 under at the national press club for its annual authors night and we are joined by michael gordon of "the new york times." endgame is his most recent book. >> it took me three years. it's the first comprehensive history of the war in iraq and what makes it unique is that incorporate not only use of american policymakers, but i talk to iraqi leadership. administer maliki, president talabani, rivals, adversaries so that the iraqi account as well as what's happening on the battlefield. i basically covered the war in iraq for "the new york times" for the whole conflict. i tried to put it all together in one book. >> why did you call it "the endgame"? >> well, because it's about the endgame of american military involvement and i spent the last third of the book cover and the obama administration. it's not been well covered
, ruling us at exploiting us that it's necessary to point to them and see you, you were one of those so to people overseas. >> well, i wish we were at date on a happier topic, but please join me in thanking dr. wole soyinka. [applause] >> you're watching tv on c-span 2 under at the national press club for its annual authors night and we are joined by michael gordon of "the new york times." endgame is his most recent book. >> it took me three years. it's the first...
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you look at a crowded look at who is looking looking at us? why are they looking at us? are they planning on what our schedule is? are they moving around depending on where we go or are they looking at is just out of curiosity? they want to be there, it's a piece of history. so again, it was on-the-job training. has anyone in the audience served in the military? please, your hands? so few of us left these days. just throw a second lieutenant into the pool and if he survives he survives and if not, bring down another one. they are expendable. i picked military policemen who are veterans and have some degree, i felt some degree of performance and professional self-control. self-restraint. no trigger-happy, no can't state incidences. this was an important event in the eyes of the world around me. luckily, i pick the right ones and an event in memphis the night before, we were separated by the blacks. the blacks had to step back. the night before when out of the gate in mississippi candidate be in the stray shin in the army felt that the situation on the campus was so incend
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the chinese are going to outthink us and outwork us, and we're going to lose. and ultimately say well, we're pure of heart. we're not going to have our government involved in this. the chinese may want to do that. we'll just give up the jobs that could have come to america. we'll give up the opportunities for businesses to export to africa from the united states. what a terrible outcome that is. it really is shortsighted. it really argues for a good economic theory, but one that really doesn't reflect the reality of the world we live in today. after all these months of hard work by a bipartisan group of senators and congressmen, we come down to one objection. that's how the senate works. i know it. i respect it. each senator has a right to make an objection. i want to applaud my colleague from pennsylvania for coming to the floor and saying it in his own words. many times this is done in secrecy without any disclosure of who's behind a hold or an objection. and i sal lewd the senator from -- and i salute the senator from pennsylvania for his honesty in coming t
the chinese are going to outthink us and outwork us, and we're going to lose. and ultimately say well, we're pure of heart. we're not going to have our government involved in this. the chinese may want to do that. we'll just give up the jobs that could have come to america. we'll give up the opportunities for businesses to export to africa from the united states. what a terrible outcome that is. it really is shortsighted. it really argues for a good economic theory, but one that really doesn't...
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and will think about you when they use it. also again, i hope it is something you will do for yourself because maybe you are spending more time at home or in bed. maybe if you are not it makes time he spent in bed more worthwhile because it is more comforting. sometimes it is hard to mary's style and comfort all at once because normally to do not mix and that is why my shoes are so bad tonight. they're not in the oral plane so this is the way to start a young person out this fashion forward a comfortable, snugly and fun. allegra, i have to say with any of these patterns they are timeless and this is great with our highgate manor brand. >>guest: will never think you would find this kind of fabrication in this beautiful design which we did in the beautiful paisley and leopard. remember >>host: the sheets are still available to. >>guest:both of these colors go gray with this green paisley combination and this only had two airings prior to the show and became a customerk and everybody loved feel and sensation of these microfiber c
and will think about you when they use it. also again, i hope it is something you will do for yourself because maybe you are spending more time at home or in bed. maybe if you are not it makes time he spent in bed more worthwhile because it is more comforting. sometimes it is hard to mary's style and comfort all at once because normally to do not mix and that is why my shoes are so bad tonight. they're not in the oral plane so this is the way to start a young person out this fashion forward a...
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these stories can either push us forward or hold us back. i think for a while miami has some stories that help i am a bank and no miami has stories moving it forward. even our self-images, our personas are just stories that we tell about ourselves for that other hotel about us. about a year ago i met the actor and director tyler perry. tyler a couple years ago bought delta airlines headquarters in atlanta and needed to some its tv shows and movies. one of the amazing things about tyler and his story is a 1998 tyler was homeless and tyler perry searcy changed his story. i have kind of an unusual story myself. i was born in a small river town on the hudson, newburgh new york. when i was growing up, look magazine called it the all-american city and at that time we had kind of an inner-city, but then we had a lot of harm kids and there was an air force base of the schools will follow the inner-city and harm can and kids who'd been around the world. it was an interesting place to grow up. earlier on my father grew up in the newburgh poorhouse. it
these stories can either push us forward or hold us back. i think for a while miami has some stories that help i am a bank and no miami has stories moving it forward. even our self-images, our personas are just stories that we tell about ourselves for that other hotel about us. about a year ago i met the actor and director tyler perry. tyler a couple years ago bought delta airlines headquarters in atlanta and needed to some its tv shows and movies. one of the amazing things about tyler and his...
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>> it's almost never use. and the reason it is used to so you can't sue them. whenever this plea came into discussion, the prosecutors first question was, will they sign a waiver giving up all rights to sue the state of arkansas? people ask, and i have any reservations, or don't have to fight with myself to come to the decision to accept that? you just know, because i was dying. i was dying very quickly. there were times when i was so sick i literally didn't think i was going to make it to the next morning. so i knew if i didn't take that deal i was going to die. they could've easily stretched his case out another five to 10 years. they could have constantly asked for extensions. i would have died. >> has anybody from the state of arkansas or the county in which you were prosecuted, anybody come close to saying to you, we know you didn't do it, and by the way, we are really sorry we did this to you for 18 years? >> no one involved in the system whatsoever, according to the state of arkansas they still have not made a mistake. they still say that in arkansas the
>> it's almost never use. and the reason it is used to so you can't sue them. whenever this plea came into discussion, the prosecutors first question was, will they sign a waiver giving up all rights to sue the state of arkansas? people ask, and i have any reservations, or don't have to fight with myself to come to the decision to accept that? you just know, because i was dying. i was dying very quickly. there were times when i was so sick i literally didn't think i was going to make it...
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>> could you talk about what sources used for writing the book? are they new ones or reinterpretations or -- >> well, nothing is new. the sources are almost endless, equivalent to three of those shelf over there. obviously, the diaries and writings of john adams, the writings of john adams are, i think, seven volumes, and the diaries are four volumes. the writings of sam ad. adams, and thomas hutchenson, all prolific writers, kept diaries issue and kept all the correspondence so it's a rich pool of research. yes, sir? >> all this information disclosed, why was it dormant for so long? >> well, it's not dormant, it's there in bits and pieces, and the problem with american history -- i think i can generalize all american history, but certainly, the history of the colonial, revolutionary war and post revolutionary war era is that it's very complex, and as my son, at 14, came home from school and said, you know, something, dad, american history, all they do is talk. there's not a lot of action. all they do is talk. well, he's right, and the talk is ver
>> could you talk about what sources used for writing the book? are they new ones or reinterpretations or -- >> well, nothing is new. the sources are almost endless, equivalent to three of those shelf over there. obviously, the diaries and writings of john adams, the writings of john adams are, i think, seven volumes, and the diaries are four volumes. the writings of sam ad. adams, and thomas hutchenson, all prolific writers, kept diaries issue and kept all the correspondence so...
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right after 9/11, several of us, a lot of us gathered at a mosque here here at usc, and i heard a sentence that changed my life. and it was this, to be religious in the 21st century is to be interreligious. and it is that dedication that draws me to eboo and the way he thinks. so, i'm going to apologize only once for an emotional about this man. if i get choked up your just say, chalk it up to that. but one of the great moments in this book is his telling about a genesis moment. so, eboo, would you? >> this is actually from and on 2010. it's august of that years from waking up at around 4 a.m. and i'm having my last meal before my prayers that begin the time of fasting. it's at that point that i'd like to, as muslims do, to read more from the garage or from rumi, or just additional time of censuring and meditation to god listens extra closely during those dawn ours. but instead, if people remember what was happening in august 2010, it was the crazy discourse were having around the ground zero mosque. and so i'm not reading rumi. i'm not reading the koran but i'm literally right wing hate h
right after 9/11, several of us, a lot of us gathered at a mosque here here at usc, and i heard a sentence that changed my life. and it was this, to be religious in the 21st century is to be interreligious. and it is that dedication that draws me to eboo and the way he thinks. so, i'm going to apologize only once for an emotional about this man. if i get choked up your just say, chalk it up to that. but one of the great moments in this book is his telling about a genesis moment. so, eboo, would...
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he used to be with a number mexicos. do a google with his statement he'll come up. >> need more than just what is in the debates. >> thank you very much. yes? >> good afternoon. my -- actually it's not so much a question as it is a proclaimation that there seems to be a lot of peacemakers who have made very deep steps in the peace process at the beginning, and they held out for so very long, it seemed to me, and it really kind of went beyond gandhi's civil disobedience in into akind of melee, and i suppose that those people should -- are they worthy of a claim? or did that in fact happen? >> did -- you mean the opposition or -- >> with people who resisted without being violent. >> oh, yeah. there were a number of protesters in syria. this largely started out as peaceful protests. they were sprinkled with some militant elements but the regime as i mentioned earlier -- in syria it's a security state. and i've dealt with these guys. they come after me on the littlest things, and it's a convulsive push button response. so, w
he used to be with a number mexicos. do a google with his statement he'll come up. >> need more than just what is in the debates. >> thank you very much. yes? >> good afternoon. my -- actually it's not so much a question as it is a proclaimation that there seems to be a lot of peacemakers who have made very deep steps in the peace process at the beginning, and they held out for so very long, it seemed to me, and it really kind of went beyond gandhi's civil disobedience in into...
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i want to be useful. on my tombstone, i wanted to say he was useful. he lived a long time. but i want to be useful. i don't want just to say the word. i want to make a difference. >> well you already are and i thank you on behalf of not only the library of congress and the children's book counsel and every child of reader but on behalf of the audience and for our country. it's a wonderful job you are doing. let's give walter dean myers a round of applause. [applause] we continue our coverage of the international summit of the book with a panel titled "the role of cultural institutions in fostering the future of the book." this is about 50 minutes. [applause] >> now we are coming to the second session of our day. it will be a panel discussion on the role of cultural institutions in the role of fostering the book. i will turn to our moderator to introduce the panelists once we are all on stage. a distinguished figure in publishing and journalism and i'm sure you've heard of them. president publisher random house trade group, the founding editor of mass traveler magazine, edit
i want to be useful. on my tombstone, i wanted to say he was useful. he lived a long time. but i want to be useful. i don't want just to say the word. i want to make a difference. >> well you already are and i thank you on behalf of not only the library of congress and the children's book counsel and every child of reader but on behalf of the audience and for our country. it's a wonderful job you are doing. let's give walter dean myers a round of applause. [applause] we continue our...
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the world can cooperate and i think globalization is not us with the bigger shirk but cooperating. that is the century i want to live bin. >> 300 people have more wealth than 300 million and the wal-mart shares are richest and the top 1 percent have more wealth than the bottom 90 percent we need to redistribute resources. >> they say you cannot live like that. there is always the bad guy. now is the chinese. it is an old argument we become the bad guy because nobody yaks worse than we do. >> we have the power and ironically it was our space that now devolves into the space electronic shield, a triple canopy by 2025, we could become a fascist force for control. we are. like "star wars" and george lucas. will we follow our heart or follow the base instincts? >> host: think you. >> host: john jackson, jr. professor of africana studies at it ever since pennsylvania and author of "racial paranoia" the unintended consequences of political correctness". dr. jackson talking about "racial paranoia" who is paranoid? >> guest: we're all paranoid when it comes to race. for good reason. one poi
the world can cooperate and i think globalization is not us with the bigger shirk but cooperating. that is the century i want to live bin. >> 300 people have more wealth than 300 million and the wal-mart shares are richest and the top 1 percent have more wealth than the bottom 90 percent we need to redistribute resources. >> they say you cannot live like that. there is always the bad guy. now is the chinese. it is an old argument we become the bad guy because nobody yaks worse than...
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you look at a crowd, and you look at who's looking at us. why are they looking at us? are they planning what our schedule is? are they moving around depending on where we go? or are they looking at meredith just out of curiosity, they want to be there, a piece of history? so, again, training -- it was on-the-job training. has anybody in the military, in the audience here, have anybody served in the military? please, your hands? so few of us left these days. you just throw a second lieutenant into the pool, and if he survives, he survives. if not, bring on another one. they're expendable. so, again, i picked sharpshooters, i picked military policemen who were veterans and had some degree, i felt some degree of performance professionally; self-control, self-restatement, no trigger-happy, no incidences. this was an important event in the eyes of the world around these soldiers, and so luckily i picked the right ones and at an event in memphis the night before that very few units had to undergo was we were separated by the blacks. blacks had to step back the night before w
you look at a crowd, and you look at who's looking at us. why are they looking at us? are they planning what our schedule is? are they moving around depending on where we go? or are they looking at meredith just out of curiosity, they want to be there, a piece of history? so, again, training -- it was on-the-job training. has anybody in the military, in the audience here, have anybody served in the military? please, your hands? so few of us left these days. you just throw a second lieutenant...
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she calls us today. go ahead with your question for neil barofsky. >> caller: into so much for articulating your comments for the fiscal cliff. i appreciate it. i was most interested in your process for writing the book. it is so close to the events. did you have to get special permissions write the book? what was your primary motivation? since so many of us are looking for better jobs, i love the city left a job you love to do this. that. you said that you might write something else. were you going to do next? >> sure. the good news about this is that for me, when writing this book, there are certain things i could never write about. like any type of ongoing criminal investigation in any of that information is just completely out of bounds for me. you know, there is all sort of grand jury concerns and investigations. when i wrote this book, what i decided to do was instead of doing anything that would require industry permission, a stop to the topics and issues that i knew came nowhere even close to any
she calls us today. go ahead with your question for neil barofsky. >> caller: into so much for articulating your comments for the fiscal cliff. i appreciate it. i was most interested in your process for writing the book. it is so close to the events. did you have to get special permissions write the book? what was your primary motivation? since so many of us are looking for better jobs, i love the city left a job you love to do this. that. you said that you might write something else....
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please join us there. thank you. [applause] >> my name is susan novotny and i'm the owner of the book house of stuyvestant plaza in beautiful downtown detroit. where now at the stuyvesant bookstore and we been here since 1975. we sell books. real books, books that you can hold in your hand, crack open, cuddle up in a chair with, those kinds of books. i started out in the publishing industry. i was a sales rep for simon & schuster and now banned putnam. that was back in the 70's and 80s and i sell books all over upstate new york and throughout new england. after about 10 years of that lifestyle i decided i wanted to go to the other side of the counter and sell books. so i went to work or the bookstore here in the plaza and i eventually bought into the business and then bought the business out. and so i have been co-owner since 1991. it's been an up-and-down history since then. shortly after he purchased the store, with a small business administration loan, it was lynn barnes & noble and borders moved in and literally
please join us there. thank you. [applause] >> my name is susan novotny and i'm the owner of the book house of stuyvestant plaza in beautiful downtown detroit. where now at the stuyvesant bookstore and we been here since 1975. we sell books. real books, books that you can hold in your hand, crack open, cuddle up in a chair with, those kinds of books. i started out in the publishing industry. i was a sales rep for simon & schuster and now banned putnam. that was back in the 70's and...
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i almost used that for my title. he ended up he and his entire family were brutally gruesomely murdered. they were be headed, his children were killed as well, and it was a big sensational story at the time. you can go through the free press archives and find all this coverage and it was never solved. at a certain point i realized it was not far from where i was living so i walked over to check it out and where his house was, so i filed that way and we're the enough, probably a year later there was another murder almost literally across the street. it was a drug thing and these kids were trying to -- their ridge two rival drug houses, they were trying -- these two teenagers were trying to scare off radicals and to do this they ended up killing and then dismembering this guy and scattering body parts around literally across the street from this other murder. again, that was history repeating itself in a way that i found fascinating. i went to the trial and i don't normally cover murder trials. sort of -- i don't know
i almost used that for my title. he ended up he and his entire family were brutally gruesomely murdered. they were be headed, his children were killed as well, and it was a big sensational story at the time. you can go through the free press archives and find all this coverage and it was never solved. at a certain point i realized it was not far from where i was living so i walked over to check it out and where his house was, so i filed that way and we're the enough, probably a year later there...
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[laughter] >> 84 the light you have shared with us but also to the nation. but for hope and optimism our future is bright because he will be a big part of it. >> i will correct you. i said this to my fans. i get my energy from being them mayor of the city but people get the job done every single day. also with the work that we do i am proud to give a modicum of support to what you we're doing but there are heroes of light and energy working with covenant house there is a young kid that will be born to one of the children there you will never know their name and they will feel the love. science shows if you look at the stars tonight just imagine think that is hundreds of billions of light years away and many are gone and do not exist but the energy and lightbulb body gives of goes on forever generations yet unborn feel that light we may have a finite time of eris but every single day we should burn s bright and as more and brilliant as possible. those elected the state's elected officials and has been fueled with a conspiracy of love. i and my father had a lo
[laughter] >> 84 the light you have shared with us but also to the nation. but for hope and optimism our future is bright because he will be a big part of it. >> i will correct you. i said this to my fans. i get my energy from being them mayor of the city but people get the job done every single day. also with the work that we do i am proud to give a modicum of support to what you we're doing but there are heroes of light and energy working with covenant house there is a young kid...
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all my father left us early. lost or stolen or strayed and my mother raised us and i spent time in an orphanage when i was an infant. my mother raised us on their own my generation was the first generation to go to college. she is a hell of a lot smarter than i am in dishy wanted to get a high-school but there was none to go to at that time. she wanted us to get educated. >>host: when do you being interested in public policy? >> i started to do legal history and michigan. with the draft enacted to the civil war. with all of the materials generated from agencies have the power is exercised how do the powerless get people to listen to them? because when you go to use in antonio texas the first commission held with latinos that i write about nobody answers-- listens to them and kids worse days kicked at a school because spanish as a dirty language. the conditions were awful. or if you read about otis do was and were run over by a car and the commission was sent to him because he was a korean war veteran. they stoppe
all my father left us early. lost or stolen or strayed and my mother raised us and i spent time in an orphanage when i was an infant. my mother raised us on their own my generation was the first generation to go to college. she is a hell of a lot smarter than i am in dishy wanted to get a high-school but there was none to go to at that time. she wanted us to get educated. >>host: when do you being interested in public policy? >> i started to do legal history and michigan. with the...
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other aspects of his journey emphasizes use. when he arrived back in copenhagen the two policemen had to hoist and through the crowd and carry him to the newspaper office. the juvenile from a climaxed during subsequent visits to england and france. in london he attended a gala luncheon with the head of the canadian pacific railway and even better he met sir robert powell, founder of the boy scouts. when he was in paris seesaw around the world in 80 days, a very popular stage version of the novel that had been playing for decades. he watched a copy of the novel being printed expressly for him down in gold and embossed with his name on the cover. he then met jules verne's grandson who escorted him to grandfather's grave. they're surrounded by local boy scouts he later wreath with the message in memory of jules verne, from his greatest admirer . avoided aviation in order to make some kind of point about their place in the world. bicyclist who were not from the western imperial powers began to rebound and the bicycle as a peaceful w
other aspects of his journey emphasizes use. when he arrived back in copenhagen the two policemen had to hoist and through the crowd and carry him to the newspaper office. the juvenile from a climaxed during subsequent visits to england and france. in london he attended a gala luncheon with the head of the canadian pacific railway and even better he met sir robert powell, founder of the boy scouts. when he was in paris seesaw around the world in 80 days, a very popular stage version of the...
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the chaplain: let us pray. mighty god, have mercy upon us because of your unfailing love. because of your great compassion, let us feel your presence today on capitol hill. as we gather this weekend with so much work left undone, guide our lawmakers with your wisdom. show them the right thing to do and give them the courage to do it. be their shelter in the midst of the storm, regardless of how high the waters rise. when they feel exhausted, remind them of the great sufficiency of your grace. look with favor on our nation and save us from self-inflicted wounds. we pray in your great name. amen. the presiding officer: please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the presiding officer: the clerk will read a communication to the senate. the clerk: washington, d.c., december 30, 2012. to the senate: under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i her
the chaplain: let us pray. mighty god, have mercy upon us because of your unfailing love. because of your great compassion, let us feel your presence today on capitol hill. as we gather this weekend with so much work left undone, guide our lawmakers with your wisdom. show them the right thing to do and give them the courage to do it. be their shelter in the midst of the storm, regardless of how high the waters rise. when they feel exhausted, remind them of the great sufficiency of your grace....
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and who will start us off? yes, stand up and we will get you a microphone. >> go ahead. >> i would object because there is a basic value in learning and a basic excitement about learning new things if you start paying for that you remove that basic excitement because let's say someone reads a book and they like it, then they like it and they will read another book but if you pay a kid to read a look and give them money they are not going to like it as well. >> so the pain made all their motivation to read. and tell us your name. thank you for that. did you want to add to that? stand up and tell us. >> i disagree with her. i think that you are putting the wrong emphasis on the goal. it isn't necessarily to make money, but to gain knowledge and enjoyment. >> that is the proper goal of teaching and the amount -- tell us your name. >> now we need to hear from someone who thinks that it is worth a try. you have heard the objections. what would you say in defense of this idea? stand up and we will get to the micropho
and who will start us off? yes, stand up and we will get you a microphone. >> go ahead. >> i would object because there is a basic value in learning and a basic excitement about learning new things if you start paying for that you remove that basic excitement because let's say someone reads a book and they like it, then they like it and they will read another book but if you pay a kid to read a look and give them money they are not going to like it as well. >> so the pain made...
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that's like all of us here. to be reading on a treadmill or something, it doesn't mean that were sedentary. it doesn't mean that we are more sedentary than people playing video games. the reading is good for you. there are other medical evidence studies that suggest that reading is good for you. in the digital age, you have zero privacy, get over it. i'm here to say that that was said about every technology in the past 125 years. when the portable camera was developed. in 1888. all of a sudden you have no control over your image because you could go into a studio and pose and wear your best clothes. close. now, you could be caught anywhere. there were editorials in the 1880s that said have you seen the kodak film, which can get you in a bad position of the post office. but instead of saying get over it, many state laws about privacy. when supreme court dealt with the case about gps, the supreme court didn't say, hey, we have technology, get over privacy, they said -- and this is a supreme court that doesn't agre
that's like all of us here. to be reading on a treadmill or something, it doesn't mean that were sedentary. it doesn't mean that we are more sedentary than people playing video games. the reading is good for you. there are other medical evidence studies that suggest that reading is good for you. in the digital age, you have zero privacy, get over it. i'm here to say that that was said about every technology in the past 125 years. when the portable camera was developed. in 1888. all of a sudden...
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this is the real thing when he used in the senate would use stapp as the president is in the museum for the cuban missile crisis those who wrote for kennedy, a servant him comment to him as a friend had their own take, interpretation and their own spin. now the visible speaker tonight, the voice we and 48 you to listen to is kennedy. we see this book as the one kennedy never had the opportunity to write. now individual who is the most responsible, caroline kennedy conceived the idea that presented the most compelling and fascinating excerpts of these recordings and she championed the publication. i can personally attest of reword, every caption come in every photograph had caroline's eye for detail and accuracy. i am sure to 90 writing that as well. also the author and editor of nine best-selling books of american history, politics. poetry. you can make that 10 best-selling boop -- books we heard "listening in" is now on the top 10 best-selling list. [applause] caroline serves as president of the kennedy library foundation for some of the programs the government could not support index
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i wondered, and i started asking myself, well, what is it that gives us this productivity advantage? what is it that gives american manufacturers this ability to compete? i wanted to go and talk to rail manufacturers because one of the things that when you're in washington and in bureaucracies, you know, you have a lot of people pontificating about the state of american manufacturing and what we need to do without actually engaging and talking to manufacturers, and, particularly, not talking to small and medium-sized manufacturers. the large manufacturers, the ceos, are often represented on policy think tanks, but the reality is almost half of the manufacturing jobs are with small and medium sized businesses. i decided that i wanted to talk to some of these small and medium sized businesses and figure out what it was that was givenning them a comparative advantage, and one of the arguments i made in the book is our entrepreneurial culture that allows us to have the advantage. i don't mean the entrepreneur at the top, the steve jobs model or the great industrialists. what i mean is th
i wondered, and i started asking myself, well, what is it that gives us this productivity advantage? what is it that gives american manufacturers this ability to compete? i wanted to go and talk to rail manufacturers because one of the things that when you're in washington and in bureaucracies, you know, you have a lot of people pontificating about the state of american manufacturing and what we need to do without actually engaging and talking to manufacturers, and, particularly, not talking to...
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those of us over 35 grew up in a different america. we were taught very directly what it means to be an american. we've gone a love of country and appreciation of this institution. if you didn't get these things from the family, you got them from the neighborhood and the father down the street to come in korea and the family allows anthea appeared he can get a sense of patriotism from school. if all else failed, you can get a sense of the churches were the culture. the movie to the idea that america was special. tv was like that to you through the 60s. now we're about to enter the 90s and some things have changed. younger parents are sure that an unenviable appreciation of america to teach america. for those who create the popular culture from a well grounded patriotism is no longer the style. our spirit is back, but we haven't institutionalized. we've got to do a better job of getting across that america is freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise and freedom is special and rare. they needs production. so
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they've obviously never used it. i don't believe that any nation, which has any sense that i would ever dare to use that in the environment that is the middle east today. i think it is a preposterous notion. if you've ever been to hear it shina, you will see what that's an incredible devastation it is feared i don't think any nation can ever consider, nevermind the blessing they do on an ongoing basis. my question to you is i think a lot of basic obfuscation is as far as i'm concerned, what is that it to the palestinian people? what kind of future do they face? there was an attack from palestinian centuries long a few days ago or a few weeks ago. tonight is the end result of israel's policy of the last 20 or 30 or 40 years. i've been a lifelong sinus and igc and israel that is more and more isolated and more and more surrounded the enemies to an even greater degree. i'd just like to now, will the day come when there will be peace? ever be given up the fact that would be in my lifetime. israel will go down fighting. t
they've obviously never used it. i don't believe that any nation, which has any sense that i would ever dare to use that in the environment that is the middle east today. i think it is a preposterous notion. if you've ever been to hear it shina, you will see what that's an incredible devastation it is feared i don't think any nation can ever consider, nevermind the blessing they do on an ongoing basis. my question to you is i think a lot of basic obfuscation is as far as i'm concerned, what is...
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. >> good evening, welcome and thank you for joining us. my name is richard fontaine. i'm the president for the center of new american security. it's a pleasure to welcome you all here to celebrate the publication of robert kaplan's new book the reason geography what they tell us about the coming conflict in the battle against the state. i've heard it said before that you all very great author by reading his books not by buying them -- they will be sold on the stage in this room back here. bald kaplan's work is known no doubt why this audience. he's been a senior fellow and in march of 2008 a foreign correspondent for the atlantic for about a quarter of a century and is currently the chief geopolitical analyst. i first became acquainted with his writing during his book with traces of history of the tight midwesterners living and working in the middle east. and since that book, the very titles of his work goes to the coming anarchy have provoked the debate. the recent book of american power has become acquired reading by those interested in the strategic competition in
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>>guest: many companies use a big machine date do not use fresh a's, or sour cream. wheat makes each batch and we look at all the ingredients and there is a person looking at everything every step away. we do not put it in a compare of and that is a big difference could take some iraq but they put it through mon-khmer ball and six hours later they have 10,000 cakes. this is a grillingreally good quality ingredients and my mother would yell at me for i using release delayed chees fill eight cream cheese. real billy green tea's. philly green tea's. we have the gramm cracker againstcream cheese. and we do it of the gramm crackers and this is what our family does we do cakes every love it. this is package for christmas and it is a star phone error that is very special week do not do ground deliveries. >>host: vertigo to california real joanna believe it is 3:00 a.m. and up morning she has to be excited when a welcome joanne welcome to hsn and thank you for getting up early with us. good morning. >>caller: hi intelliwhite purchases cake lester microcurrent melded to me by
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so he used deception. he used intelligence, ultra- codebreakers. and just as important he had a very high tolerance for mistakes in intelligence. he understood that intelligence is hard to do. you're going to make mistakes, covert action is hard. you going to make mistakes, so he had a hide -- he had a high tolerance for. perhaps too high. because initially the cia did have -- today, we don't feel all that great about those operations, but in 1953-54 it looked like we're getting with communism pretty cheaply and efficiently. he gave his cia a lot of roe. they started doing less well by, there's a failed coup in indonesia in 1958, a botched cue in syria i think and 57. and eisenhower's own advisers quietly start telling him the problems here, the father of the -- [inaudible] then like bob lovett and david bruce, smart guys. you've got a problem. and he says, you know, and you to get rid of dulles, allen does. his brother, john foster dulles, sector essay, a little harder to fire him, but more importantly, ike said it takes a strange kind of genius t
so he used deception. he used intelligence, ultra- codebreakers. and just as important he had a very high tolerance for mistakes in intelligence. he understood that intelligence is hard to do. you're going to make mistakes, covert action is hard. you going to make mistakes, so he had a hide -- he had a high tolerance for. perhaps too high. because initially the cia did have -- today, we don't feel all that great about those operations, but in 1953-54 it looked like we're getting with communism...
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it gives us all hope. [laughter] i'm going to ask a few more questions, and but if you have questions, i think this would be a good time to line up, and when i see a few of you mined p -- lined up, i will turn to you. but you both mentioned african-americans in service, and you both mentioned the union fixation on recapturing charleston which was so symbolically important and yet such a difficult harbor to get at because it was surrounded by forts. but i want you to talk, both of you if you would, about robert small. it's a story that's not told too often. both of you tell it. this is a man who comes into view one day on a ship called the planter -- >> yeah. >> an african-american. tell me what that story was. >> well, a little context first, if i may. one, the union established its blockade along the south atlantic coast. enslaved americans recognized that this was potential salvation, and can thousands of them came down to the coastline or the rivers when union gunboats ventured up the rivers, sort of fl
it gives us all hope. [laughter] i'm going to ask a few more questions, and but if you have questions, i think this would be a good time to line up, and when i see a few of you mined p -- lined up, i will turn to you. but you both mentioned african-americans in service, and you both mentioned the union fixation on recapturing charleston which was so symbolically important and yet such a difficult harbor to get at because it was surrounded by forts. but i want you to talk, both of you if you...
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british prime minister lord pomerance and told us for an officers. meanwhile, the lincoln government appeared overwhelmed. congress and the white house were in the hands of a political party that it never government before. the treasury department was broke. federal spending was multiplied as never before. in 1862, the u.s. government spent six times as much money as it spent in 1861. and where would it come from? northern banks, and an economic panic had closed their exchange windows in late december, refusing to redeem paper money. meanwhile, rebel soldiers menace washington from nearby manassas virginia where they had routed the union army a few months earlier. confederate artillery they atomic river above and below the n. no one in civilian authority, not even lincoln, had any detailed knowledge of the plans being prepared by the union's top general, george p. mcclellan. he was in secrecy assisted by a small clique of generals who shared his views of lincoln's policies. they were opposed. worse, mcclellan was rumored to be dying. with his plans d
british prime minister lord pomerance and told us for an officers. meanwhile, the lincoln government appeared overwhelmed. congress and the white house were in the hands of a political party that it never government before. the treasury department was broke. federal spending was multiplied as never before. in 1862, the u.s. government spent six times as much money as it spent in 1861. and where would it come from? northern banks, and an economic panic had closed their exchange windows in late...
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eight years later the banks took us into the soup again. first time, shame on us. we didn't understand we should we did this way. shame on them. second time, shame on us. what do i mean? here is the hard part than may's that some folks but let me plow ahead. we have to face the fact that an undemocratic economic system rooted in the way of organizing a production that we have left in tact has now given us the second major collapse in 75 years. it has undone most of the achievements of the 1930s and it is now in sufficient power to have made sure that the crisis brought on was responded to by the government bailing out all the folks at the top, the biggest banks, biggest corporations, the stock market. and with all that money sent by the government to bail us out we to realities were left. one, it wasn't enough to overcome the crisis and number 2, the government's probably borrow the money to bail everybody out and that has to be dealt with and the way it will be dealt with is we're going to fire teachers, we're going to cut back on your pensions, we are going to fo
eight years later the banks took us into the soup again. first time, shame on us. we didn't understand we should we did this way. shame on them. second time, shame on us. what do i mean? here is the hard part than may's that some folks but let me plow ahead. we have to face the fact that an undemocratic economic system rooted in the way of organizing a production that we have left in tact has now given us the second major collapse in 75 years. it has undone most of the achievements of the 1930s...
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it could be any of us. the tool had turned into the thing made, the journey had turned -- blurred in to the destination. okay. grace drew a symbolic line between a set of facts and orientations toward life that seemed okay. they were marked like a bouquet and one that seemed over the line. she did the same with regard to acts. when he was helping, she got help with that, pick up the picture and help with that but he also said would you like me to go through all of the replies you are getting? i have a good eye for who would be a good match for you, she drew a line and said no. when i meet my life partner, i chose you. we are part of this tagalong cultural trend that has infused itself into services, part of that is a market way of seeing. we are not automatically mowed down by the market culture, that would be a simplistic way of looking, brilliant adapters, we're extraordinarily adept at your online's, doing peculiar work of keeping personal life and in the book i outline a variety of five main ways that a
it could be any of us. the tool had turned into the thing made, the journey had turned -- blurred in to the destination. okay. grace drew a symbolic line between a set of facts and orientations toward life that seemed okay. they were marked like a bouquet and one that seemed over the line. she did the same with regard to acts. when he was helping, she got help with that, pick up the picture and help with that but he also said would you like me to go through all of the replies you are getting? i...
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. -- craters on us. again, if somebody starts to ask questions and say why aren't you doing due diligence on what you're buying regardless of whether it has a rating and remember underneath the rating in terms of the contest were concentration issues. a aaa of one kind may be different if it has a dispersed amount of assets behind it versus concentrated all in sub prime in las vegas you name it. so in the end, the only answer, really, is due diligence, that investors fell down. lou in a wonderful quote said, no one was defending the deal. you didn't have two sides, you had sort of this prosperity that everybody thought would never end of all this money flow income from overseas. investors were rushing to put it someplace. and aaing looks pretty good particularly when it's a sub prime aaa security i can get a higher yield than if it were prime mortgage and a aaa security. you know, the simple question, risk can return are correlated. somebody had to ask besides edmund clark what's going on here. >> i thin
. -- craters on us. again, if somebody starts to ask questions and say why aren't you doing due diligence on what you're buying regardless of whether it has a rating and remember underneath the rating in terms of the contest were concentration issues. a aaa of one kind may be different if it has a dispersed amount of assets behind it versus concentrated all in sub prime in las vegas you name it. so in the end, the only answer, really, is due diligence, that investors fell down. lou in a...
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let us check out what is happening. if you want the insider look, we have got it for you in our spotlight. here it is. [♪ music ♪] >>host: welcome to your go-to-guide for all things hsn. our very own colleen lopez has handselecting% brand new today's special that we will launch tonight at midnight. it is the deb guyot herkimer earrings 2 sparkle throughout the entire season. if you want to hear more about her today's special before it launches, our very own colleen lopez will be joining us for a live-chat in the hsn ap tonight 10:30 p.m.. be sure to download the hsn-app to your tablet or smartphone and you can chat with colleen and then join us for the launch of a brand new today's special. [commercial] [reading] [reading] [♪ music ♪] >>host: i am suzanne runyan you are watching hsn. one of the world-renowned experts on coins mike mezack i call in our favor coin geek. says she has a 12 low-light mercury dimefair condition. >>guest: $2.23. >>host: --1208 thank you for the question. mike will answer virtually any
let us check out what is happening. if you want the insider look, we have got it for you in our spotlight. here it is. [♪ music ♪] >>host: welcome to your go-to-guide for all things hsn. our very own colleen lopez has handselecting% brand new today's special that we will launch tonight at midnight. it is the deb guyot herkimer earrings 2 sparkle throughout the entire season. if you want to hear more about her today's special before it launches, our very own colleen lopez will be...
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so they made us go to the southeast corner. so for six months i worked on the third floor in the second quarter would have been tom's old bedroom on the ground floor with the original tom sawyer's, which burned in 1806. so i always thought this was linked here. i wrote a book about the woman in the shower was not janet leigh. as an actress and a model. they wanted everyone to think that was janet leigh. i thought my god in one year this forgotten women. i refers to know she was dead. in one year use cover play role, and francis corporals first movie, the canseco. she was one of the first 10 bunnies in chicago. she wrote stallions for steve mcqueen. so i'm writing this book. i was than his personal involvement. it is a great door in a great woman. gradually i find clues that may be somebody else was killed in her place. somebody saying i was the woman. i went to her she has to go to high school. there was no date, but a remark. maybe find out how she was alive. i've been asking ever about it. send sitting there saying she has to
so they made us go to the southeast corner. so for six months i worked on the third floor in the second quarter would have been tom's old bedroom on the ground floor with the original tom sawyer's, which burned in 1806. so i always thought this was linked here. i wrote a book about the woman in the shower was not janet leigh. as an actress and a model. they wanted everyone to think that was janet leigh. i thought my god in one year this forgotten women. i refers to know she was dead. in one...
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send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> it's in the northeast part of afghanistan. they cannot be more remote. this valley is a cul-de-sac that goes nowhere. it's up near the himalayas, for getting up there, flying helicopters is hard. the only way and was on foot or helicopter. so trying to get their initially to plan the nation's was tough. what they were out there doing, they go after high-value target. this guy was a commander. it's a terrorist group essentially has some associated with al qaeda, has some sort of truce with the taliban but these guys are nasty character to there's a lot of foreign fighters, guys are really there to fight against, vilified for afghanistan or for their version of afghanistan. these guys are mercenaries. and what he was in the area was recruiting, resting people into fighting, and he was rumored to have surface to air missiles and the stockpiling conspicuous also credited with the fear of ambushes and about that caught the attention of some of the comm
send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> it's in the northeast part of afghanistan. they cannot be more remote. this valley is a cul-de-sac that goes nowhere. it's up near the himalayas, for getting up there, flying helicopters is hard. the only way and was on foot or helicopter. so trying to get their initially to plan the nation's was tough. what they were out there doing, they go after high-value target. this guy was a commander. it's a terrorist...
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we remember, a lot of us remember who strom thurmond was. strom thurmond was a 1948 presidential candidate. strom thurmond was one of the lead authors of the 1956 southern manifesto. this is the protest the supreme court decision in the brown v. board of education decision 1954. strom thurmond is a recordholder to this day of the longest one man filibuster. and again his work pashtun and the guinness book of world records, 24 hours and 18 minutes he spoke against the 1957 civil rights bill. we remember strom thurmond today as one of the last of the jim crow demagogues. and he was. he was that. he was one of the last jim crow demagogue. what we forget about thurmond is that he was also one of the first of the sun belt conservatives. what do i mean by that? what's a sun belt conservative? the sun belt, it's one of the big stories, one of the major stories in the history of 20th century american politics. and that is the flow of jobs, of industry, of resources and population from the states of the northeast and the midwest to the south and the
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send us an e-mail and book tv and c-span.org or tweet us. >> the author of how to be black . howdy be black? >> it helps so much to be born black. i think that's the most reliable way of actually being black. the book does not convert you. it's not an advanced genetic modification program. it is more of a mental intellectual exercise in identity, storytelling, and clarity. >> one example of being black. >> well, the story of the book is mostly a memoir. i grew up in washington d.c. during the crack wars, the crackhead mayor, columbia heights before it got a metro station and the target. in that journey from very political black power family and the legacy of my ancestors through the crack wars, that is the backbone of the book. and there are lessons learned along the way, have to be the black friend, have to speak for all black people which are often asked to represent everybody we sort of kind of maybe look like. have to be the next black president which is very applicable during this particular season. this book contains those lessons plus interviews with some black experts
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[applause] i invite the rest of you to join us in continuing the conversation. [applause] >> thank you. >> very good. >> it was okay? >> no, no, it was very good. you raised a lot. >> so the title of the book is "dilemmas of representation," and it's about a couple things. it is about the limits of representation. i reallimented to show -- i was really interested in representation, and i wanted to show that when members of congress, quote, represent their districts, that representation can really mean a lot of different things to different congress people. it's not one size fits all, and i really wanted to show the choices, members of congress were making, and i reallimented the reader to think -- really wanted the reader to think, so of all of those choices what style of representation does the reader think is best? that's one of the advantages of profiling ten members of congress. they were only ten members of congress, but you really could get an in-depth picture in terms of local, national distinction, which i wrote down in a lot of different ways so, you kn
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welcome, and thank you for joining us. my name is richard fontaine, i'm the president of the center for new american security. it's a real pleasure to welcome you all here tonight to celebrate the publication of senior fellow tom ricks' new book "the generals: american military command from world war ii to today." speaking of books, it'd hardly be a launch event if we didn't have some for sale, and we do, so if you're interested, tom's volume will be on sale after the event, if you haven't already picked up one -- which i see some of you have -- in the ballroom lobby. tom ricks has been a member of the cns family for a while. he writes a widely-read blog called "the best defense" which won the 2010 national magazine award for best blog of the year. he's well known for his book "fiasco" and for the follow-up, "the gamble: general petraeus and the american military adventure in iraq." tom spent 17 years as a reporter covering the u.s. military for "the wall street journal" and another eight for "the washington post". in the
welcome, and thank you for joining us. my name is richard fontaine, i'm the president of the center for new american security. it's a real pleasure to welcome you all here tonight to celebrate the publication of senior fellow tom ricks' new book "the generals: american military command from world war ii to today." speaking of books, it'd hardly be a launch event if we didn't have some for sale, and we do, so if you're interested, tom's volume will be on sale after the event, if you...
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so the past six separate bills using different combinations. so the lesson is persuasion is necessary and imperative to sway the downfall but if you don't do the numbers coming you won't succeed. these men together cindy obsequy to this gimmick we are speaking with fergus bordewich authors of "america's great debate" stephen a. douglas and the compromise of the union. thank you. >>> i think the writers institute is very important with a culture. we are a culture of words and voices. words are key to our imagination and capacity to envision things. we ourselves are not completely tied to print on the page. but i think that there is no other art form so readily
so the past six separate bills using different combinations. so the lesson is persuasion is necessary and imperative to sway the downfall but if you don't do the numbers coming you won't succeed. these men together cindy obsequy to this gimmick we are speaking with fergus bordewich authors of "america's great debate" stephen a. douglas and the compromise of the union. thank you. >>> i think the writers institute is very important with a culture. we are a culture of words and...
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story most of us enjoy most. so when i am reading for fun i like to read ashley trollope, elizabeth gaskell, as well as well-known ones like jane austen and dickens and george areas. the american writer i like very much from that period or a little later is edith walton. great favorite of mine. i like her because she is the real storyteller but always kind of fiercely intelligent. her analysis of her characters always amaze you but that isn't all. she doesn't just do that, she tells you a real story. she is a great favorite of mine. >> before i turn this back over -- i want to ask a personal favor of you and ask you to sign this book. [applause] >> by the way -- you will have a chance to do the same. >> while they are signing i want to introduce myself, dale gregory, vice president of public programs and how thrilling it is to have you all here in these two charming gentlemen, i am sure you will agree and i want to remind you the book is on sale in the museum store, book signing will be out the back doors, i am s
story most of us enjoy most. so when i am reading for fun i like to read ashley trollope, elizabeth gaskell, as well as well-known ones like jane austen and dickens and george areas. the american writer i like very much from that period or a little later is edith walton. great favorite of mine. i like her because she is the real storyteller but always kind of fiercely intelligent. her analysis of her characters always amaze you but that isn't all. she doesn't just do that, she tells you a real...
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people keep on using it because it's so convenient. so we do have some time, but at some point if we lose that status and i say -- is that going to happen tomorrow? no. would happen within the next 18 months? yes. >> the sad part of this is -- [inaudible] and that's not -- that's how you want to look at this. >> we are coming to the end. maybe we can conclude on slightly more upbeat. what is the united states biggest economic asset and how can we exploit this lack of growth? >> [inaudible] it's all people. [laughter] >> i thought we were friends. >> free economic system and all this. we are blessed with enormous resources, enormous diversity. i think diversity is extremely important. out openness immigration, question is we've got so many serious ideological -- [inaudible] sometimes directly. to give some cause. we've always been able to exercise the differences in approach. and now we are head on and we need to reconcile them. spent i'm going to be very specific about this as opposed to come and i believe in all these other things tha
people keep on using it because it's so convenient. so we do have some time, but at some point if we lose that status and i say -- is that going to happen tomorrow? no. would happen within the next 18 months? yes. >> the sad part of this is -- [inaudible] and that's not -- that's how you want to look at this. >> we are coming to the end. maybe we can conclude on slightly more upbeat. what is the united states biggest economic asset and how can we exploit this lack of growth?...